NERC Compliance: Best Practices in Solar GADS Reporting

Webinar Summary

As renewable energy generation becomes an ever-increasing part of the US energy generation portfolio, understanding the causes and frequency of renewable energy outage events is becoming critical. To help grid operators better comprehend outage events at solar power projects, NERC (North American Reliability Corporation) is requiring all solar plants of 100 MW or greater capacity to begin submitting quarterly GADS (Generating Availability Data System) reports in 2024. All solar projects of 20 MW or greater capacity must submit GADS reports beginning in 2025.

The required content of a solar GADS report is extensive and without an automated, AI-enabled system for collecting the data and performing the calculations, this process is extremely time-consuming and prone to error.

About the Speakers

Rob Budny

Rob Budny leads the sales of SparkCognition products to the power generation industry. He is a Mechanical Engineer by training, with 20 years of power generation experience, and a particular focus on renewable energy. Using his expertise in rotating equipment reliability, Rob has been developing and selling AI solutions for the power generation industry for the past 7 years.

Sandeep Gupta

Dr. Sandeep Gupta is VP of Renewable Energy Technology at SparkCognition. Sandeep has 20 years of experience in the renewable energy industry. Sandeep’s PhD research involved wind turbine aerodynamics, and he spent 8 years at a wind turbine OEM, where he led the loads and controls department. At SparkCognition, Sandeep leads the development of the company’s cutting-edge tools for renewable energy operators. He holds a PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.

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