Disturbance Monitoring Validation — continuously verified, automatically executed.
As grid complexity increases and disturbance events become more scrutinized, the ability to accurately capture, validate, and retain disturbance monitoring data is no longer a passive requirement — it’s foundational to reliability.
That’s the intent behind NERC PRC-030-1.
PRC-030-1 establishes requirements for disturbance monitoring equipment (DME), including digital fault recorders (DFRs), sequence of events recorders (SERs), and other monitoring systems. It ensures that when system disturbances occur, entities have the data fidelity, coverage, and configuration necessary to reconstruct events and support post-disturbance analysis.
In practice, however, PRC-030-1 compliance introduces a set of operational challenges:
- Are all required buses and elements properly monitored?
- Are devices configured correctly and consistently across the fleet?
- Is data being captured at the right resolution and retained appropriately?
- Are gaps in coverage or misconfigurations quietly accumulating over time?
For many organizations, answering these questions is still a manual, periodic process—often involving spreadsheets, device checks, engineering reviews, and documentation updates that are both time-intensive and prone to drift.
Why PRC-030-1 Is a Perfect Candidate for Automation
PRC-030-1 is fundamentally a data validation problem at scale.
It requires correlating:
- Network topology
- Monitored elements
- Device configurations
- Recording capabilities
- Data retention practices
…and ensuring they stay aligned as the system evolves.
This is exactly the type of work that software should be doing continuously—not engineers once or twice per year.
data phleet’s Approach: Continuous Disturbance Monitoring Validation
With the release of our PRC-030-1 automation module, data phleet now:
- Validates monitoring coverage across required buses and elements
- Analyzes DME configurations against PRC-030-1 requirements
- Identifies gaps or inconsistencies in recording capabilities
- Flags misalignment between system changes and monitoring setup
- Automatically generates audit-ready evidence and reports
All on an ongoing basis.
Instead of asking “Were we compliant at the time of our last review?”, operators can now confidently answer:
“Are we compliant right now?”
Expanding Coverage: A Growing Library of Automated PRC Checks
With PRC-030-1, data phleet continues to expand its library of automated compliance checks.
Today, we support:
- PRC-005-6 – Protection System Maintenance
- PRC-019-2 – Coordination of Generating Unit Protection Systems
- PRC-024-3 – Frequency and Voltage Ride-Through
- PRC-025-2 – Generator Relay Loadability
- PRC-029-1 – Frequency and Voltage Ride-Through Verification
- PRC-030-1 – Disturbance Monitoring and Reporting
And we’re just getting started.
Many additional automation modules are on track for release this year, as we continue working toward a future of continuous, real-time NERC compliance validation.
Real Results: Time Savings, Accuracy, and Better Use of Expertise
Across our customer base, we consistently see:
- Hundreds of hours saved by eliminating manual compliance work
- Improved accuracy and consistency in validation and reporting
- Faster identification of compliance gaps and risk exposure
- Higher job satisfaction as engineers focus on engineering—not paperwork
As one customer recently told us:
“What used to take weeks of coordination and validation is now something we can trust is being checked continuously in the background.”
Scaling Impact Through Strategic Partnership
We’re also excited to announce a new partnership with a leading consulting firm in the electric power industry, who will be leveraging data phleet’s automation platform across hundreds of customer environments.
This partnership reflects a broader shift we’re seeing across the industry:
Forward-looking organizations are combining deep domain expertise with purpose-built automation to deliver stronger, more scalable compliance outcomes.
NERC Compliance Checks. AUTOMATED.
PRC-030-1 is another step toward a simple goal:
Let software handle the tedious, repeatable validation work—
so your team can focus on operating and improving the grid.