Summary

FCASpays is a web service accessible via later versions of Chrome only. The aim of FCASpays is to help you inspect 4 second causer pays data and to help you maximise value in the FCAS markets; primarily the regulation FCAS markets. FCASpays includes the following applications;

Financial reports: Monitor the real cost and revenue to provide regulation FCAS. Shows a breakdown of actual regulation FCAS gross margin and reports on all FCAS revenue.
Physical data: A visualisation tool to inspect 4 second causer pays data, includes our restructured tables and enhanced data fields such as a unit's Basepoint.
SQLpad: Write your own PostgresSQL queries to our 4 second causer pays data base.
Bid Optimiser (under construction): Creates bids that maximise value. This includes co-optimising bids between regions and applying our algorithms that predict the utilisation of regulation services.

FCASpays data

FCASpays utilises and includes the following data sets:

Causer pays 4 second data
1. Restructured so that variable numbers have been transposed to column labels,
2. Split into four tables for the four element types, those being units (duids), system measurement point (e.g. NemSouth), Interconnector and Load.
3. New derived variables,
  1. trajectory - the basepoint or linear trajectory between snapshot of scada output and generation target at the end of the dispatch interval,
  2. trajectory_ramp_mw_per_min: the required ramp rate per minute in order to reach the generation target
  3. utilisation - the sum of response divided by the enablement of a regulation service
  4. effective_enablement: the volume of regulation service available which is limited by AGC control logic
4. Normalised variables such as RaiseReg+Totalcleared
5. Aggregate 5min variables including averages, standard deviations, maximums and minimums
  1. e.g. maximum_participation_factor

Trouble shooting...

What if I'm having problems with a new version?

Your web browser may be too old. This is a list of supported web browsers.

Microsoft Edge
Internet Explorer 11 (note: we do not support Internet Explorer 10 or earlier)
Chrome
Safari
Firefox

With the exception of Microsoft web browsers, all other web browsers can be upgraded at any time for free so if DAEG is not working, try googling and installing the latest version of your preferred web browser (or ask your IT people to do it). Unfortunately Internet Explorer is not easily upgraded.

Why we don't support Internet Explorer 10 or earlier.

Internet Explorer 10 was released in 2012. It is an old web browser. DAEG works fine on IE 11 or Microsoft Edge (which is Internet Explorer rebranded) however you cannot easily upgrade to this web browser which is why old versions of Internet Explorer persist.

I like the old version, can I still access version 1.

For a while you could but not anymore. V1 was retired on the 1st April 2018.

Any new version is tested on a variety of screen resolutions, web browsers and devices including mobile devices. However we do not support old web browsers (internet explorer is often many years old) and we like to use relatively new technology (i.e. code). Smart phones and tablets can be a problem since older ones will not let you upgrade operating systems past a certain version.

What if data doesn't seem to be updating?

Sometimes there is a gurgle in the network or a cache hiccup ... hold down the "ctrl" key and click the "refresh" on the web browser. This will clear most issues.

Very occasionally there is an issue at our end and we have a bunch of diagnostics that will restart systems and tell us if any part of the system is not behaving normally. If there is a delay, rest assured we are working on it - most of the time the data is updated before the next predispatch interval.

What if generation groups change?

Generation groups change from time to time depending on constraint formulations and invoked constraint sets (due to transmission outages) as well as new constraints being added and old constraints being removed. Our algorithms are generic and this is normal and part of the process.

What are the help options?

There are several ways to get help or learn about DAEG.

This wiki is the written documentation.

There is a video overview:

You can restart the "walk-through" in DAEG by clicking the help icon and selecting "take a tour":

And you can contact us via email, support@pdview.com.au or within DAEG using the instant messenger icon at the bottom right of the screen:

If your company has subscribed to DAEG, then you can use your company email address to sign up.

How do I create a new account?

Step-by-step guide

Once you are on the login screen, follow the steps below:

On login page, click on Sign Up link
You will be presented with screen below
Fill in your email address and password.
Click on SIGN UP button.
You will receive an email with activation link. Click on it to confirm your email address.

Any issues, please contact us.

Navigation logic.

Clickable objects and icons in DAEG change colour when hovered over. Green icons or cells are active and inactive icons are grey.

The layout of DAEG is hierarchical. Timestamps are on the top row as well as general navigation options such as help. The second row allows one or more regions to be toggled as well as the time frame (p5min and/or predispatch) and the view type (summary view and/or data from all time intervals). The third layer is specific to the arrangement of the data such as grouping by fuel type. In the main body of data individual generation groups and region data may be hidden so that only the objects of interest are visible.

What are the functions in Home (Table) View and Graph View?

DAEG is designed so you only look at the data you want to. Hence you can select any number of regions and you can hide any number of generation groups or region values. You can select both or either the p5min or predispatch data as well as look at all of the data or just summary data and sparklines.

Overview of FCASpays