Third Quarter of 2019

Generation Availability Analysis Wind (GAA Wind)

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: September 27, 2019

Table 1. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
You can now perform the following tasks:
  • Submit a Performance Record for review.
  • Approve or reject a Performance Record.
  • Resubmit a Performance Record for review.
  • Open an approved Performance Record.

To facilitate this enhancement, the State Management functionality has been enabled.

F44233

You can now perform bulk association and disassociation of report configurations with multiple sub groups at a time. To facilitate this enhancement, the Report Configuration section has been enhanced and the Associated Subgroups field has been added to report configuration datasheet.

F42533
When you import Events, you can now access the following information:
  • Previously imported Events
  • Manually created Events
  • Edited Events
  • Total Events

To facilitate this enhancement, the Import Validation section has been added to the Import Event window.

F41538
You can now import Events for multiple Sub Groups simultaneously using the Sub Group drop-down list box in the Import Event window.F41536
You can now export event data from the Events workspace on the Sub Group Summary page. The event data will be downloaded in the Microsoft Excel format. To facilitate this enhancement, the export feature has been added to the Events workspace in the Sub Group Summary page.F41519
You can now update the event data using a data loader. To facilitate this enhancement, a new data loader workbook, GAA Wind Events, has been added.US357123
You can now create a separate connection for each Sub Group for importing Events. To facilitate this enhancement, the following changes have been made:
  • The GAA Wind Connection family has been introduced.
  • In the GAA Wind Administrator page, the Settings section has been replaced with the Connections section, where you can associate Sub Groups with a connection.
US357121
You can now view event data in the Events workspace of the Sub Group Summary page in the time zone of the logged-in user, the time zone of the sub group, or Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), depending on the value selected in the filter. To facilitate this enhancement, a drop-down list box, Timezone, has been added to the filter in the Events workspace of the Sub Group Summary page. In addition, the event data will be considered in the time zone of the sub group for the Performance Record creation.US357111
You can now generate and download Performance Reports and Sub Group Reports for multiple Sub Groups and months. To facilitate this enhancement, a new button, Generate Reports, has been added to the GAA Wind Overview page.US357109
You can now schedule a job to automatically import the Events for multiple Sub Groups. To facilitate this enhancement, the Schedule Jobs section has been added to the GAA Wind Administrator page.US357090
In the GAA Wind Events family, the Event Description and Event Duration fields have now been renamed Description and Duration, respectively.US326379
The value in the Duration column for an Event now appears in the following format: hh:mm:ss.US319984
Table 2. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the GAA Wind Administrator page, in the Configuration section, in the NERC Types subsection, ACTH (that is, Active Turbine-Hours) was incorrectly provided as an option. This issue has been resolved.DE112620
Previously, when importing Events that already existed in APM, if an error occurred while deleting, the entire transaction failed. However, if an error occurred while inserting, the existing Events were deleted. This issue has been resolved.DE110436

Release Date: September 6, 2019

Table 3. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you attempted to create or regenerate a Performance Record for a given Sub Group and month, the data for the overlapped Events was not considered for the Performance calculation unless Events with the same NERC Type existed within that month. This issue has been resolved.DE115375