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GADS Data Reporting Instructions — Updates for 2006

Effective January 1, 2006, the following GADS Data Reporting Instruction are valid: 

• Change to Maintenance Outage (MO) Definition
• New Event Types – Maintenance Outage Extension (ME), Planned Outage Extension (PE), Maintenance Derating Extension (DM), Planned Derating Extension (DP), Mothballed (MB), Inactive Reserve (IR), Retired Unit (RU)
  • PJM and NERC specific – Replacing Scheduled Extension (SE) with ME & PE and Derating Extension (DE) with DM and DP
• Change to Event and Performance Record Layout – new expanded record sets
• Major Changes to Performance Reporting – including the addition of inactive hours
• Cause Codes Added – Fossil-Steam, Fluidized-Bed Fossil, Nuclear, Hydro/Pumped Storage Units, Gas Turbines, Jet Engine, Diesel Engines, Miscellaneous Units, Combined Cycle & Co-Gen Block, Geothermal, Outside Management Control
  • PJM specific:
    • Outside Management Control (OMC) – now being used
    • XEFORD – calculated only for data submitted for 01/2006 and on
• Cause Codes Removed – Combined Cycle & Co-Gen Block
• Electrical Cause Code Changes – All Generating Units
• Changes to GADS – outage reporting including attempted and actual starts definitions

We recommend that you keep up-to-date on the most current GADS reporting revisions by downloading a copy of the NERC GADS Data Reporting Instructions.

 

News Releases & Items of Interest

Click the following links to review recent announcements and news articles:

• ISO New England (02/03/2006)
• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) (09/15/2005)
• Solomon Associates Launches GADS NxL (02/03/2005) —
  the Next Level of GADS Reliability Software
• Ron Fluegge Joins Solomon Associates (02/01/2005)

Published Papers and Tutorials

• Benchmarking In Today's Competitive Environment, American Society of Mechanical Engineers – PWR-Vol. 34, Proceedings of the 1999 International Joint Power Generation Conference – Power, Volume 2, ASME 1999, July 28, 1999
• Tutorial: The ABCs of RAM Improvement – Methods and Data, ASME International Joint Power Generation Conference & Exposition, July 25, 2000
• Tutorial: Use of Reliability Data and Processes in the Competitive Power Marketplace, ASME 2001 International Joint Power Generation Conference & Exposition, June 6, 2001

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