CEA notifies draft guidelines on communication system for ISTS

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has notified the draft Guidelines on Availability of Communication Systems for Interstate Transmission of Electricity. The guidelines have been prepared by the National Power Committee in line with the CERC’s Communication System for Interstate Transmission of Electricity Regulations, 2017. The draft guidelines elaborate upon the treatment of communication system outages and the methodology for computation of availability of a communication system.