Recommended Practice for the System Grounding of Industrial and Commercial Power Systems

This recommended practice covers the system grounding of industrial and commercial power systems. The basic reasons for grounding or not grounding the electrical system and the various types of system grounding, as well as the practices commonly used to ground electrical systems are discussed.

16-196 IEEE PAR for P3003.1 RP for Grounding Comments due September 30 2016

Comments on an accessible draft may be keyed into this web site:

http://publicreview.standards.ieee.org/public-review-web/public-app

It is likely that the project chairman will discuss this standard at the IAS Portland meeting.   High on the agenda of the E&H committee is preparing a paper that identifies practical methods for migrating the traditional solidly grounded medium voltage systems to resistance grounded systems; as discussed elsewhere on this site.