The purpose of this guide is to establish guidelines for the application of automatic reclosing facilitiesto circuit breakers. This guide is not intended to provide guidance for the operation of the bulk powersystem in matters of reclosing, such as enabling or disabling automatic reclosing or providing formanual closures following automatic tripping of an element. Automatic reclosing can restore orfacilitate restoration of the system to normal, following automatic tripping of distribution andtransmission facilities. Throughout this guide, the shorter term ‘‘autoreclosing’’ will be used in place of
automatic reclosing
. Italicized terms are defined in Clause 3 of this guide