History of the Power Systems Protection Committee

The Power Systems Protection (PSP) Committee of the Industry Applications Society (IAS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) is a relatively young committee of IEEE, which was formally elevated to committee status on January 1, 1977 from its former status as a subcommittee of the Industrial and Commercial Power Systems (I&CPS) Committee. The identifiable roots of this committee, however, date back almost fifty years, and its existence as an identifiable entity to February, 1961, when it was established as a subcommittee of the I&CPS Committee, at that time an American Institute of Electrical Engineers' (AIEE) committee. Any history of the PSP Committee that fails to trace its evolution from its earliest roots to its present status would not be complete.