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What we are working on for the next updates:

1. A new report that shows the Operating Hours between Outages.  It will include startup date/time (breaker closed), stop date/time (breaker opened) and hours online for each continuous run on a unit basis.

2. Expanded data collection and reporting for jointly owned units. 

3. WPF / XBAP releases that will allow both Windows/desktop and browser-based versions to be installed (see following details)

4. Adding capability to create the Generation Equipment Status upload file for the Canadian Electricity Association (CEA) Equipment Reliability Information System (ERIS) database

The current GADS OS version is built on Microsoft Framework 3.5 SP1 which was released on November 18, 2008 and whose support will end on January 13, 2015.

We will make available two versions from the same source code base:  a WPF GADS OS standalone version and a WPF GADS OS XBAP version.  These are also being released as a set of free and open source software tools and licensed under the same GNU General Public License Version 2.

The WPF GADS OS standalone version is a Windows application and will replace the current Windows version on January 1, 2014.  This will allow for a 1 year "grace period" before there will no longer be Microsoft support for the current version.

WPF XAML browser applications (XBAPs) combine features of both Web applications and Windows rich-client applications. Like Web applications, XBAPs can be deployed to a Web server and started from Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Firefox.  This supersedes the old GADS NxL web-based version.

We will still support Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases.

Conclusions:

Dr. Singh has concluded that the GADS OS has implemented Method 2 as intended and the software appears to be producing the expected transition rates.

Based on Dr. Singh’s findings in conjunction with the EFORd comparisons, the NYISO has concluded that MARS state transition rate matrices whose probabilities are consistent with concept of the unit being demanded as specified in Method 2 has been successfully implemented.

The objective of the EFORd calculation is to:

1. Find the time spent in various states during demand

2. Converting these times into conditional probabilities

3. Adjusting the times in derated states to equivalent times in the full forced outage state

This results in the LOLE calculation for MARS being based on EFORd and transition rate matrices that satisfy the conditional state probabilities of the units being demanded. The NYISO recommends that this approach be implemented for the upcoming IRM study

Transition Rate Validation White Paper.pdf (302.91 kb)