Monday, July 12
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Presented by
G. Michael Curley
Manager of GADS Services at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) of the United States, operates the Generating Availability Data System (GADS) database. GADS collects, records, and retrieves operating information for improving the performance of electric generating equipment. GADS is used to support equipment reliability and availability analyses and decision-making by GADS data users.

GADS Services will provide a one-day Data Reporting Workshop that focuses on data collection and reporting techniques; it emphasizes the importance of accurate data reporting. It also builds confidence in GADS data users who come away satisfied that GADS reports provide an accurate resource of generating unit performance information. The workshop is open to anyone interested in learning about the data gathering process.

• Introduction and welcoming remarks
  
  • What is NERC now?
  • What is GADS?
• Fundamentals on the three databases that makes GADS
  
  • Design -
    
    • What makes up the design database?
  • Performance -
    
    • What are the elements of the performance database?
  • Event -
    
    • What are the elements of the event database?
• Outside Management Control (OMC)
• What is it and how does it affect me?
• "In the beginning, there were definitions..." (if time)
  
  • What are the equations calculated by GADS?
  • What are they trying to tell you?
  • Review of standard terms and equations used by the electric industry.
• Data release policies
• Wrap up