Most people will want to use a current production release. Best of all, GADS Open
Source™ can be downloaded and used entirely free of any license or maintenance fees.
Current Production Release
GADS Open Source™ 20.10.01.00 is the current base production release. All apps must be updated to the 20.x.x.x release.
Beginning with versions 20.x.x.x, the GADS OS software will require .NET Framework 4.7.2 or higher. The release of .NET Framework 4.7.2 was announced on 30 April 2018. This version requires Windows 7 SP1 or later.
GADS/OS software allows you to collect, analyze and report GADS data for conventional generating (fossil, nuclear, hydro/pumped storage, combined cycle, etc.) and wind turbine generating units.
Conventional Generation Analysis has been updated to 20.7.4.0 to correct minor issues.
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1. The GADS/OS Conventional Generation software handles these ten types of conventional generating units:
- Fossil steam including fluidized bed design
- Nuclear
- Gas turbines/jet engines (simple cycle and other modes)
- Internal combustion engines (diesel engines)
- Hydro units/pumped storage
- Combined cycle blocks and their related components (gas turbines and steam turbines)
- Cogeneration blocks and their related components (gas turbines and steam turbines)
- Multi‐boiler/multi‐turbine units
- Geothermal units
- Other miscellaneous conventional generating units (such as variable fuel – biomass, landfill gases, etc) used to generate electric power for the grid and similar in design and operation as the units shown above and as defined by the GADS Data Reporting Instructions
2. The GADS/OS Wind™ software allows you to collect and report validated data as specified in the NERC GADS Wind Turbine Generation ‐ Data Reporting Instructions Version 3.1 (Revision: 05/07/2019 - Effective: January 1, 2019).
The new version of GADS/OS Wind™ brings the industry-leading performance and security of GADS reporting to all Generator Operators.
Feedback on adding a list of standard reports is underway to provide a better understanding of the wind turbine performance. Currently, calculated hours, factors and rates are exported to Excel only while allowing custom reports.
To download or update to the current version, scroll to bottom of this page.
Installation instructions are found on the Installation page linked to from the
Documentation for the particular release.
| New NERC GADS cause codes for 2020 - Conventional Generation
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| Effective April 29, 2020, NERC has added cause code 9015 – Pandemic
for reporting events that are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is an OMC cause code listed within the External: Catastrophes table and it applies to all unit types.
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Using method “3. Download” below, you can now download the CauseCodesen-US.mdb file (it’s in CauseCodesen-US.zip).
This will simply require that you download the mdb file into the GADSOSCCUpdater folder and then run the Cause Code Updater application … no software installation required.
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| IMPORTANT: In Window 7 and above, using Windows Explorer browse to the location the downloaded ZIP file was saved to, right-click on the file, bring up its properties, and "Unblock" the file ... then press "Apply". Then you can unzip the mdb file.
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| New cause codes list:
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New GADS Cause Codes 2020
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| You can download the new cause codes and update your database using one of the 3
methods below:
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| 1. Online Installer to install "8. Use the Cause Code
Updater to update the Cause Codes and Amp Codes tables"
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| 2. Individual modules to download "8. Cause Code Updater".
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| 3. Download the CauseCodesen-US.mdb
file and copy it to: C:\GADSOSCCUpdater
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| After completing one of the three steps above, run the "GADS OS Cause Code Updater".
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| IMPORTANT: In Window 7 and above, using Windows Explorer
browse to the location the downloaded file was saved to, right-click on the file,
bring up its properties, and "Unblock" the file ... then press "Apply".
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Except for bug fixes, the next major release is currently scheduled to follow the NERC updates in December 2020.
| Conventional Generation 20.10.01.0 full install (Recommended)
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| released on October 1, 2020
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| Click Online Installer to install Full GADS OS Conventional Generation
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| Click Individual modules to download individual
GADS OS Conventional Generation modules.
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The GADS Open Source versions require the installation of .NET Framework 4.7.2 or higher on Windows 7 SP1,
Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 Update, Windows 10, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016.