At the January 23, 2014 meeting of the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee, the following changes were approved to PJM Manual 21, “Rules and Procedures for Determination of Generating Capability”:

           All units must now ambient correct their Seasonal Capacity Verification tests, with the exception of hydro, pumped storage and diesel.

          All hydro and pumped storage units must now do their once per year Capacity Verification test during the Summer test window of June, July or August.

 These changes will be effective for the 2014 Summer test period.

 The Seasonal Capacity Verification tests must use at least one of the ambient corrections, dry bulb air temperature, relative humidity or cooling water. Any unit not complying with these changes will be considered 100% forced out for the entire season.

 If you have any questions or concerns, please contact one of the PJM GADS Administrators at gadssupport@pjm.com

The NYISO Market Training Department is offering its annual Generating Availability Data System (GADS) Seminar on April 22, 2014 from 8:30 AM – 12 Noon; being held at the NYISO facility located at 10 Krey Boulevard Rensselaer, NY 12144.

This half day seminar is intended for individuals directly responsible for handling the submittal of their organization’s generating availability data, or for those individuals who support that function.

The topics to be covered include:

•    GADS History & Origins
•    Design/Performance/Event Data
•    Common Errors
•    Example Scenarios
•    GADS Software
•    Use of GADS Data
•    Panel Discussion
       
The cost of the class is $250, which includes a hot breakfast and a lunch ‘to-go’ at the end of the seminar.

Additionally, you may request to purchase printed course materials during your registration check out, request a complimentary CD of the materials, or opt to obtain the materials directly from our website a week prior to class at no additional charge.

Participants may conveniently be invoiced or pay with a MasterCard/ VISA/Discover card.

To sign up for the seminar select the attached link and complete the registration process at:

http://www.nyiso.com/public/markets_operations/services/market_training/course_catalog/index.jsp

For additional information please contact Debra L. Doyle at 518-356-6274.

We used to have a web-based ASP.NET version of the software that used HTML pages, but abandoned it in favor of our current Windows-based and WPF/XBAP versions.

The bold promise of "write once, run anywhere" has been around for as long as I can remember. We've tried to skin this cat many ways over the years. When Windows 8 was coming into shape a few years back, Microsoft made it clear that its strategy for this bold promise was HTML5. Many other software vendors jumped on the HTML5 bandwagon, too. As far as HTML5 is concerned, we aren't a whole lot closer to "write once, run anywhere."

In fact, it's more like, write it once the really hard way with client side code, tweak the heck out of it to render consistently for three major browsers, and then run it anywhere -- as long as it's in the three major browsers, and you are okay with it running really slowly because it's running in the browser.

With our XBAP versions you run the software inside a browser, but it is not HTML.  As a result, you have a faster, better tool to use.