Here is a list of the changes included in each new version of our programs.  Big Deal Items (Major Releases only) are shown in Red Font.

Fun Fact: we have 4 different kinds of releases: 

• Major Releases: 
  • The second number changes (PAT 2.10.0)
  • You should upgrade immediately because we either found a nasty bug or put in an awesome new feature.
• Minor Releases:
  • The third number changes (PAT 2.10.1)
  • You should upgrade, but its not urgent.  We added something of little importance somewhere in the program.
• Test Releases:
  • The fourth number will change (PAT 2.10.2.1)
  • We only send these to individual users for testing purposes. 
• Earth Shattering Releases:
  • The first number will change (PAT 3.0.0)
  • Reserved for a change so big we'll probably need a music video with a marching band to properly communicate how big of a deal this change is.  ​

 

​PAT Trader

PAT Trader 1.25.3 (May 8, 2023)

• New Feature: SPP changed their RAW file format and we changed our RAW file reader. We think that qualifies as a "new feature". Added in 2 days."
  
• Bug Fix: We found a bug in our powerflow that was using 3.415926 when converting from radians to degrees. Now using 3.145926. Rather than keep this fat-finger-error quiet, we are seizing the opportunity to demonstrate our character. When we screw up, you can count on us to own it.

PAT Trader 1.25.2 (April 19, 2023)

• New Feature: When using the Shift Factor Tool in SPP, pressing "Save to CSV" will save the output for all SPP commercial nodes instead of the ones currently on display. New Feature added in 2 hours.

PAT Trader 1.25.1 (April 5, 2023)

• Adding an additional PJM Transmission Facilities file to improve PJM mapping. 

PAT Trader 1.25.0 (April 5, 2023)

• Significant improvement to mapping.  New system uses MyMaps.XML instead of the old CSV file. 
• Improvements to SPP Outage Mapping.

PAT Trader 1.24.3 (April 3, 2023)

• Working under the hood: we implemented a faster, more reliable method for scraping and combining transmission facilities files in PJM. 

PAT Trader 1.24.2 (March 20, 2023)

• Multiple enhancements to the PJM ARR Tool. 

PAT Trader 1.24.1 (March 15, 2023)

• Bug fix: Now reading all the 2023 PJM ARR files.  

PAT Trader 1.24.0 (March 14, 2023)

• 2023 PJM ARRs: We are now reading the 2023 PJM ARR files!

PAT Trader 1.23.7 (March 6, 2023)

• New Feature: When you save shift factors to CSV, the set of constraints is limited to those currently displayed in the Constraints Tool. New feature added in 1 day.

PAT Trader 1.23.6 (February 24, 2023)

• Minor change to folder structure to accommodate SPP updates for annual real time constraint summary.  

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PAT Trader 1.23.5 (February 22, 2023)

• Bug Fix: Fix the output type for MyMaps back to mymaps.csv file. 

PAT Trader 1.23.4 (February 8, 2023) 

• This new version more gracefully handles any missing MISO 2023 files. 

PAT Trader 1.23.3 (January 17, 2023) 

• New column in the Shift Factor Tool: Now we show each generator's MISO Commercial Name when you use MISO data.  New Feature added in 2 hours. 

PAT Trader 1.23.2 (January 4, 2023) 

• Annual reset to secure link behind the Upload Button. 

PAT Trader 1.23.1 (December 5, 2022)

• MISO updated their website; we updated our file service to adapt. 

PAT Trader 1.23.0 (November 9, 2022)

• Introducing... Batch Mode!  Now you can create MISO Shift Factors and LODFs automatically with a batch script!  
• Overhauled Risk Tool! We've made a series of enhancements to the Risk Tool making it easier to use.  The Risk Tool predicts the impact of future planned outages on a source/sink split.  

PAT Trader 1.22.2 (October 4, 2022)

• New Feature in the Shift Factor Tool:  Now you can quickly generate a Shift Factor Table connecting buses/units and constraints. 

PAT Trader 1.22.1 (October 3, 2022)

• MISO changed something that interrupted your ability to download transmission line outages.  We fixed the problem in 5 hours. 

PAT Trader 1.22.0 (September 28, 2022)

• New ARR Tool!  We've overhauled the ARR tool and it's ready for 2023 PJM ARRs.  Book a demo here if you are interested in using PAT Trader to get the best results in Stages 1 and 2.  

PAT Trader 1.21.14 (September 1, 2022)

• Bug Fix: We stopped the file scraper pop-up from appearing when you update the program.

PAT Trader 1.21.13 (August 23, 2022)

• Again, PJM has changed their user authentication method.  We have adjusted and now everyone can use PAT Trader in PJM again.  Bug fixed in 20 hours.  

PAT Trader 1.21.12 (August 3, 2022)

• Since PJM transmission line planned outage ticket numbers exceed 999999, we expanded our search to grab new ones.  Like Y2k, but for outages.  
• New Feature: New Congestion Charge (equal to the sum of a constraint's Shadow Price and Rating) gives you a better metric for sorting constraints to find the most important. New Feature added in 25 hours. 

PAT Trader 1.21.11 (July 15, 2022)

• Small bug fix: The 1-day-view Constraint Tool view shadow price pop up goes away as it should when you move your mouse from the Shadow Price column. 

PAT Trader 1.21.10 (June 14, 2022)

• The MISO changed locations for some of the files we grab.  Updated 6 hours from discovery. 

PAT Trader 1.21.9 (June 8, 2022)

• You can now pull in a year's worth of Real Time Constraints in PJM by checking off "Include Previous Year" before downloading.  Enhancement made in 28 hours. 

PAT Trader 1.21.8 (June 7, 2022)

• PJM has changed their their user authentication method.  We have adjusted and now everyone can use PAT Trader in PJM again.  Bug fixed in 30 hours.  Heads up: this afternoon's planned maintenance will likely disrupt PAT Trader operations again.   
• The MISO's 4-day delay in posting day-ahead LMP for all points, PAT Trader sometimes failed to display more recently posted zonal and nodal LMP.  Bug fixed in 36 hours. 
• The MISO changed how they post their outages, requiring an extra cookie.  PAT Trader can now handle all the cookies. Enhancement made in 5 days. 

PAT Trader 1.21.7 (June 7, 2022)

• Small Improvement: Now you can also flip constraints on the Congestion Tool's Average Tab.  You can also see all flipped constraints on the Constraints Tool by checking the Show Flipped radio option. Feature added in 1 hour.

PAT Trader 1.21.6 (June 6, 2022)

• Small Enhancement to the Constraints Tool: Now you can right-click on a constraint and flip it in the Constraints Tool. It will be recorded in MyMaps.CSV, just like if you flipped it in the Congestion Tool. Feature added in 15 minutes.

PAT Trader 1.21.5 (May 24, 2022)

• MISO changed something in their RAW file postings.  We updated the File Reader in 2 hours. 
• When there is a new release, the In-App Update will appear before the File Reader in the up and running process takes over. Makes it a bit easier to get the latest PAT Trader version.

PAT Trader 1.21.4 (May 17, 2022)

• Continuing to shake out the bugs in MISO outages.  Now the start/stop dates and planned outage ticket numbers are showing up properly.  Problem fixed in 30 minutes.  

PAT Trader 1.21.3 (May 13, 2022)

• Fixed mapping errors that popped up in the MISO when using Nrgstream data.  Problem fixed in 20 days.  But only 1 day after we were reminded a 3rd time.  Yikes. 

PAT Trader 1.21.2 (April 25, 2022)

• When we added the new Nrgstream data source, it caused some hiccups on the ISO outages.  We fixed them.  One of our developers spends his whole day writing Unit Tests to make sure this stuff doesn't happen anymore.  Thank you for your patience. 

PAT Trader 1.21.1 (April 21, 2022)

• Fixed some install issues.  We have an opportunity for improvement in our QA/QC department.  

PAT Trader 1.21.0 (April 20, 2022)

• Nrgstream is now available in PAT Trader as a data source! If you are an Nrgstream customer, your version of PAT Trader just got a lot faster and more powerful.  Here is the announcement page! Training materials on the new Outage Correlation Tool and ERCOT operation coming soon! 

PAT Trader 1.20.10 (April 4, 2022)

• Constraint Tool Filter Tweak: Rather than initiating a search on every keystroke, now you can type away and hit "Enter" to search.   Makes the search function less choppy.  

PAT Trader 1.20.9 (March 9, 2022)

• We improved the way we grab the latest files from the MISO.  

PAT Trader 1.20.8 (March 4, 2022)

• PJM changed something with their contingency definitions that made things more difficult to map.  Issue fixed in less than an hour.

PAT Trader 1.20.7 (February 16, 2022)

• The File Scraper for MISO stopped working this morning.  Back up and running in less than an hour. 

PAT Trader 1.20.6 (February 11, 2022)

• Ever accidentally delete your MyMaps.CSV file?  Now it will warn you before overwriting the file.  

PAT Trader 1.20.5 (February 8, 2022)

• Real-time constraints are working again in PJM.  Apparently something changed in how they post their files.  New PAT Trader posted 90 minutes after we were notified.  

PAT Trader 1.20.4 (February 1, 2022)

• Bug Fix: Recently Loaded Cases in the Up & Running Pop-up is now working properly.  

PAT Trader 1.20.3 (January 26, 2022)

• We improved the Up & Running Process again.  Now you can pick recently loaded Cases even more right away.
• Press the Upload Button and the pop up window will automatically populate with the contents of any PAT files you've read. 

PAT Trader 1.20.2 (January 19, 2022)

• PJM Contingency Definition Record Terminator Fix.  Now PAT Trader works in PJM again. 

PAT Trader 1.20.1 (January 12, 2022)

• We improved the Up & Running Process.  Now you can pick from a list of recently loaded Cases right away. 

PAT Trader 1.20.0 (January 11, 2022)

• Introducing the Contingency Evaluator!  Now one of the PAT's most popular tools is available in PAT Trader.  Discover new Mon/Con pairs before they bind in the market.  Log in and check out the newest training video here. 
• Bug Fix: Current Tool: Base case mapping issue repaired in 2 hours. 

PAT Trader 1.19.1 (December 22, 2021)

• Now you can export a "Risk Timeseries" to CSV from the Risk Tool.  See expected outage impact on split LMP on an hourly basis across the entire future month. 

PAT Trader 1.19.0 (December 16, 2021)

• New Up & Running Process!  Now its a lot easier to get started in PAT Trader.  No more manual file downloads.  We've automated the entire process and it's a HUGE improvement. Log in and check out this new training video. 

PAT Trader 1.18.6 (October 18, 2021)

• The ARR Tool's Months-below-threshold is now sorting properly. 
• SPP RT Constraints now downloading properly after some slight changes with the ISO download. 

PAT Trader 1.18.5 (October 1, 2021)

• Now PAT Trader can handle MISO DA Constraints with IDs greater than 2^32-1.  

PAT Trader 1.18.4 (August 30, 2021)

• PAT Trader can now accommodate Velocity Suite Outages w/ non-standard date fields.  Issue resolved in 4 hours.

PAT Trader 1.18.3 (August 24, 2021) 

• NERC CIP security enhancements

PAT Trader 1.18.2 (August 23, 2021)

• SPP download issues fixed.  Downloading real-time constraints and LMP from SPP takes forever, but at least it works now.  Data partnerships to the rescue soon! 
• NERC CIP security enhancements. 

PAT Trader 1.18.1 (August 17, 2021)

• PJM changed formats on their published current and planned outage files.  Now PAT Trader can read the new zip files. 

PAT Trader 1.18.0 (August 2, 2021)

• Introducing the Risk Tool!  Now you can forecast outage impact on a source/sink pair for an entire month! Login and click HERE to watch the training video.
• Introducing the MISO File Scraper!  Now you can get up and running in the MISO in a few clicks. No more manually grabbing files from the MISO website!  HERE is the training video. 

PAT Trader 1.17.6 (July 21, 2021)

• New 1-day hourly graph on the Congestion Tool's Average Tab.  

PAT Trader 1.17.5 (July 14, 2021)

• Security Enhancement: Now it's easier to reset your access token if it expires vs. crash/restart.

PAT Trader 1.17.4 (July 13, 2021)

• Custom Outages: Now you can read your own list of outages into PAT Trader and perform topology-based analysis based on your list of outages.  HERE is a new training video.  (Come back and click again if you weren't logged in!)

PAT Trader 1.17.3 (July 13, 2021)

• Flipped constraints are now saved in MyMaps.CSV and used everywhere in the program. 
• Bug Fix: Clicking a constraint/outage's row header multiple times sometimes showed bad values.  No longer. 

PAT Trader 1.17.2 (July 6, 2021)

• Congestion Tool's Bus Filter now searches properly.

PAT Trader 1.17.1 (June 14, 2021)

• Security Enhancements.
• New Icon. Now customers who license all 3 programs can spell "PAT" with the PAT, APC, and Trader icons.  Fun. 

PAT Trader 1.17.0 (May 27, 2021)

• New PJM File Scraper.  Log in and watch this video to see how it's easier to use PAT Trader in PJM. 

PAT Trader 1.16.2 (May 25, 2021)

• PJM Data Miner access restored and improved. 

PAT Trader 1.16.1 (April 22, 2021)

• Bug Fix: SPP Hub mapping error resolved in 18 hours. 

PAT Trader 1.16.0 (April 16, 2021)

• Introducing the ARR Tool.  Check out the new ARR Tool Section in the Training Video Library. 
• SPP Mapping Improvements.  

PAT Trader 1.15.9 (April 14, 2021)

• Bug fix: Now it won't crash if you are missing a file in your MISO PAT file. 

PAT Trader 1.15.8 (April 6, 2021)

• New Graph on the Constraint Tool's Average Tab: float over Daily Shadow Sum and see a graph of weekly or monthly Shadow Sum, depending on the Constraint Tool's period.  Watch this training video. 
• Bug fix: Downloading Current constraints without ever having downloaded DA or RT constraints will no longer crash due to a missing Constraints folder.  Issue fixed in 26 hours.

PAT Trader 1.15.7 (March 10, 2021)

• Power Flow Tool Bus Name Display: Hover your mouse over a bus and the full name is displayed in the status bar. 
• Power Flow Tool Bus Dropdown: Select recently viewed buses from a dropdown menu on the main bus. 
• ​Improved SPP Mapping.  

PAT Trader 1.15.6 (March 9, 2021)

• Bug fix: when you try to save a CSV that you already have open, it no longer crashes. Fixed in 4.5 hours.

PAT Trader 1.15.5 (March 9, 2021)

• Security Improvements

PAT Trader 1.15.4 (March 8, 2021)

• Bug Fix: Shift Factor Save Button was only grabbing SFs for 100 gens at a time.  Now grabs all. Fixed in 90 minutes.
• Congestion Tool Real Time Outage LODFs now displaying properly.  

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PAT Trader 1.15.3 (March 8, 2021)

• More formatting changes, improved interface mapping.  

PAT Trader 1.15.2 (March 1, 2021)

• Fixed formatting/screen resolution issues.  

PAT Trader 1.15.1 (February 25, 2021)

• Security Upgrade.

PAT Trader 1.15.0 (February 24, 2021)

• New Color Scheme!  New icons & uniform grid colors: outages in Blue, constraints in Green, Gens & FTR's in Yellow.  
• Outages Tool now links directly to Shift Factor Tool. 
• Many annoying system bells removed.

PAT Trader 1.14.0 (February 16, 2021)

• We replaced the FTP!  Now you can use the new Upload Button to share files with us. Check out the Training Video. 

PAT Trader 1.13.3 (February 12, 2021)

• New SPP File Required.  See the updated Data Requirements page in the Help File.  See the latest What's New Post.
• Constraint Tool: Now showing Shift Factors on Pricing Nodes in SPP 

PAT Trader 1.13.2 (February 5, 2021)

• Removed some annoying bells in the Shift Factor Tool. 
• Toolstrip buttons disabled until you load a case. 

PAT Trader 1.13.1 (January 29, 2021)

• Security and In-app Updater Improvements.​

PAT Trader 1.13.0 (January 26,2021)

• The Congestion Tool now has 5-minute Real Time Market Capability! 
• MISO mapping substantially improved through the use of a new file.  Change your PAT files!
• Run time speed and Security Improvements.
• Now you can calculate a constraint's LODFs for all branches, not just outages.
• The Congestion Tool now includes MISO Current Outages when forming network topology, substantially improving accuracy. 

PAT Trader 1.12.3 (January 25, 2021)

• Run time speed and Security Improvements.

PAT Trader 1.12.2 (January 5, 2021)

• Current Tool: Display now shows from-to bus names for moused-over outages.

PAT Trader 1.12.1 (January 4, 2021)

• Transmission Outage Tool's Planned Outage Tab: Checking "Show Changes" applies to a range of days instead of a single day, showing planned outages with a start or stop date within the range.  
• Transmission Outage Tool's Planned & Current Tab: Textbox for defining a minimum duration of outages to ignore changed from minutes to hours. 

PAT Trader 1.12.0 (December 16, 2020)

• In-app update added.

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PROMOD Analysis Tool (PAT)

PAT 2.26.18 (June 6, 2023)

• Bug Fix: If you are using interfaces, and if the branches in your interfaces have dated limits, and if your dated-limit-interfaces have contingencies, then these interface's dated limits have been ignored. The first period's limits have been used for monitored elements in your contingency-based-interfaces. Super rare, but important if you have dated limits on contingency interfaces. Created in the 2010 PAT rewrite, this bug almost made it to high school.
  

PAT 2.26.17 (May 23, 2023)

• Bug Fix: Fixes unit siting crash where POI reader was referencing a column in the grid that only applies to batteries and renewables causing a crash. Fixed in 90 minutes.
  

PAT 2.26.16 (May 23, 2023)

• New Feature: The "basis pair" command can now accept a bus number as a 2nd argument. This allows the sink in the batch MCC congestion report to be a bus number instead of a hub name. New feature added in 20 minutes.

PAT 2.26.15 (May 15, 2023)

• Bug Fix: When a PDTR outages a contingency branch in an event the H-C Tool was computing inaccurate shift factors. An adjustment was made to the topology so compensation vectors are re-computed when appropriate. Bug fixed in 2 days.

PAT 2.26.14 (May 5, 2023)

• Bug Fix: H-C Tool has a new "Allow Topology Changes".  Now you are unable to use this mode and LMP Range or Average When Binding Only.  These options become disabled if you select Allow Topology Changes instead of crashing. Bug Fixed in 2 days. 
• Bug Fix: H-C Tool's Allow Topology Changes now no longer ignores the very first topology period when calculating average shift factor values. 

PAT 2.26.13 (May 2, 2023)

• New Feature: "All Points" added to LMP drop-down which now allows you to show the LMP values for all buses and hubs. New feature added in 1 hour.

PAT 2.26.12 (May 1, 2023)

• Bug Fix: H-C tool no longer crashes when computing "MW weighted" and "Allow Topology Changes".
• Bug Fix: Shift Factor tool no longer crashes when computing shift factors and changing topology dates from the pull down menu. Fixed in 10 Hours from the heart of the Atlantic Ocean.

PAT 2.26.11 (April 20, 2023)

• New Feature: Now you can read a PFF override file with additional project information. If an ".IN" file exists, it's automatically examined. The original PFF is first read, followed by any additions or overrides in the 2nd PFF file. New feature added in 5 Days.

PAT 2.26.10 (April 12, 2023)

• New feature added: PFF tool now lets you drag in two PFFs at once instead of one at a time plus some new formatting. Added in 15 minutes.
• New Feature: Emergency limits no longer shown on the monitored branches created in the LODF Tool. New feature added in 1 hour.

PAT 2.26.9 (April 5, 2023)

• New Feature: When reading IDV files from pss/E for uploading as PROMOD templates, we now allow commands for modifying two-winding transformers. 
• New Feature: Multiple transactions at the same bus? Hourly Congestion Tool Batch mode now does a more thorough search for sources in this case. 
• New Batch Feature: Hourly Congestion batch operation option "topology" lets you calculate shift factors that are time-weighted averages over all topology periods. Ticket 10005 completed in 2.5 weeks.  Lots of back and forth testing and improvements! 

PAT 2.26.8 (March 30, 2023)

• Now you can merge buses in the PAT's Power Flow Tool! New feature added in 3 months. It was complicated and took a while to test!

​PAT 2.26.7 (March 2, 2023)

• New Feature: When you batch-create the H-C Tool's red and green Average Congestion Report, we now report source and sink congestion LMP in addition to the basis. New feature added in 1 day.

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PAT 2.26.6 (February 28,2023)

• Bug Fix: the PROMOD Analysis Tool no longer crashes when your EVE file has a blank line where it shouldn't. Problem solved in 2 hours.
• New Feature for Event File Output: New radio option lets you select (i) "Use Event Number in Name" and renumber all events, or (ii) "Leave Event Name Alone" and keep your original event numbers. New feature added in 1 hour.
• New histograms in the H-C Tool's front page.

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PAT 2.26.5 (February 22, 2023)

• Bug Fix: Minor changes to PAT-created CSV template file for PDTR.
• Bug Fix: Missing END statement in EVE file resolved.

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​PAT 2.26.4 (February 15, 2023)

• New Feature: Tapping into a branch with the Power Flow Tool? If you tap a branch is a member of an interface, the PAT will create a pair of interfaces, each with one side of the tapped branch. Feature added in 22 hours.
• New Feature: The PDTR Tool can read its own CSV PROMOD template output. New feature added in 3 hours.

PAT 2.26.3 (February 7, 2023)

• New Feature: Improved error handling when the final record in your event file is missing "END" with no trailing! comment. New feature added in 25 hours. 

PAT 2.26.2 (February 2, 2023)

• Capacity Check Improved: Instead of using cost curve MW limits to determine installed capacity, we now use actual PFF data to compute thermal and renewable caps.  Also, calculation of branches with 9999 or greater now ignored. New feature added in 3 hours. 
• Bug Fix: In certain circumstances, the shift factors on the Congestion Report's Generator Tab showed all 100%.  Issue resolved in 13 days. 

PAT 2.26.1 (January 31, 2023)

• Internal Security Enhancement.

PAT 2.26.0 (January 26, 2023)

• Introducing PFF Compare Tool's Gen Mapper!  This is kind of a big deal.  Every year MMWG releases a new RAW file for PROMOD input.  Now you can map 95% of generators in your old PFF to your new MMWG model, a SERIOUS time saver! 
• Introducing PDTR Tool's Event Impact Tab!  We discovered that when a PDTR outages a contingency member of a binding event, a subset of the shift factors for that event could be garbage, dispatch may be affected, and a slight, focused inaccuracy introduced to that hour's result.  This new tool helps you discover and avoid this situation.  

PAT 2.25.28 (January 17, 2023)

• Bug Fix in the Contingency Evaluator: If "Build Contingencies Automatically" was checked, "Include Original Contingencies (EVE)" was ignored.  If you had complex events (n-2 and beyond) they may have been improperly ignored.  This micro-bug discovered while rooting out an issue that turned out to be a nothing burger. Technical term there.  Issue resolved in 3 days. 

PAT 2.25.27 (January 3, 2023) 

• Annual reset to secure link behind the Upload Button. 

PAT 2.25.26 (December 12, 2022) 

• New Feature: When sorting by Area, the PAT now outputs all interfaces and nomograms FIRST, regardless of sort option.  New feature added in 4 hours. 

PAT 2.25.25 (December 6, 2022)

• Bug Fix: If the very last event in your EVE file is missing "END", now we'll gently notify you, instead of crashing.  Bug fixed in 2 hours. 
• Bug Fix: In certain circumstances, the PAT failed to write all monitored elements to a new event created when tapping a branch that is a contingency in an existing event.  Bug fixed in 1 hour. 

PAT 2.25.24 (November 9, 2022)

• Bug Fix: The Event Diagnostic Tab helps you get rid of bad events.  It was not showing events that have out-of-service contingency lines. Now it is.  Bug fixed in 1 hour. 

PAT 2.25.23 (November 8, 2022)

• New Feature: Now you can report huge groups of bus angles for a set of hours.  Fun stuff if you want to display on a map. Feature added in 8 hours. 
• Bug Fix in the ISO Report: Hydro capacity now calculated correctly.  In PROMOD, hydro units are treated like transactions.  Oddly, they are internally loaded as UDATS, normally a thermal unit thing.  Capacity was erroneously calculated using TDEF (transaction definitions) instead of UDATs.  No longer. Bug fixed in 4 hours.
• Bug Fix in Weighted Congestion Batch Report: Want to batch-determine the top 10 harmer/helpers for a source/sink split?  Well if you picked a source that isn't in your PFF,  instead of creating an internal loop and running the PAT literally forever, now it reports it in the Batch Log. Bug fixed in 1 hour.  

PAT 2.25.22 (November 8, 2022)

• New Feature: When an event file has dated limits, and when there are duplicate events withing the file (at the same date), the PAT no longer crashes. Kind of a new feature.  Kind of a bug fix.  Got it done in 4 hours. 

PAT 2.25.21 (October 17, 2022)

• New Feature: The Hourly Congestion ("H-C") Tool now incorporates topology changes when determining top 10 helper/harmer constraints!  A big deal, but not quite "new version" big deal.  
• Bug Fix: Now we can handle Event Files with a huge number of duplicate events instead of crashing. 
• New Feature: When you read in a PSS/E CON File, unrecognized commands will no longer clog up the Pink Box, hiding legitimate warnings. 

PAT 2.25.20 (October 11, 2022) 

• New Feature: When creating events from an existing Event File, the PROMOD Analysis Tool (PAT) will now include limits from your existing Event File, rather than leaving them blank, to be picked up by the records in the PLND Table in the PFF.  New feature added 4 hours after customer testing completed.

PAT 2.25.19 (October 4, 2022)

• New Feature: when generating Event File templates, we used to leave limits blank to be picked up by the PLND table.  Now we include the MW limits from an existing Event File when you read it in. New feature added in 4 hours.  
• Bug Fix: we fixed an IDV error that popped up when a bad bus was specified.  Bug squished in 24 hours.

PAT 2.25.18 (September 28, 2022)

• New Feature: Hitachi's format for branch closures in the EVE file puts the word "CLOSE" as the start of the definition in the contingency, rather than at the end.  Instead of rejecting the entire record and providing notification in the Pink Box, we fixed the EVE file as input (and output) so that branch closures are properly treated. 
• Small Bug Fix: On the LMP page of the LP Solution, we fixed a small bug that was clobbering LMP congestion component when losses were considered. 

​PAT 2.25.17 (September 15, 2022)

• Bug Fix: When saving an EVE file with commit-only constraints, the MON lines were missing.  Fixed in 30 minutes. 

PAT 2.25.16 (September 2, 2022)

• Assigns single-bus hub reference for NYISO (or any other ISO so arranged)

PAT 2.25.15 (August 16, 2022)

• New Feature: now we show solution time in the toolbar when using the Unit Siting Tool.  New feature added in 13 days.  We were on vacation for a week!  

PAT 2.25.14 (August 3, 2022)

• New Feature: now we save the mon/con name when copying from the H-C Tool's middle tab.  New feature added in 25 hours. 

PAT 2.25.13 (July 29, 2022)

• Bug Fix: Winter limits from certain AC RAW files were not being properly reported in EVE files in certain circumstances.  
• Bug Fix: Renewable unit default capacity in the Unit Siting Tool no longer overwrites user-defined values.  

PAT 2.25.12 (July 28, 2022)

• Disabled contingency branches are now visible on the Event Tool front page under "Problem Events".  Deal with them there!  We urge our customers to pay attention to these problem events.  Look for warnings in the Pink Box. 

PAT 2.25.11 (July 22, 2022)

• Improved searching capability when looking for source and sink buses in the HC Tool's Average Tab.   

PAT 2.25.10 (July 14, 2022)

• The Outage Correlation Tool's upper grid now automatically resizes properly.  Issue resolved in 2 hours. 

PAT 2.25.9 (July 13, 2022)

• Bug Fix on the H-C Tool.  Pressing the clear button will actually clear the Sink Bus now.  Bug fixed in 25 hours. 

PAT 2.25.8 (July 6, 2022)

• Unit Siting Progress Bar:  Solving a ton of sites?  Now we show "Solving 54 out of 150 sites" in the taskbar so you can know how far into the process you are.  New feature added in 4 business days.

PAT 2.25.7 (June 28, 2022)

• Detects reversed PLND ratings, and rejects temp constraints in the Unit Siting Tool.  Fixed in 8 hours

PAT 2.25.6 (June 8, 2022)

• We were including Commitment-only constraints in the Economic Dispatch and we shouldn't have been.  We have fixed this.  We're not aware of why such a constraint even exists.  But we handle them properly now.  Also, Event Files generated with the PAT will add the && prefix as needed by PROMOD.  You can see these constraints by picking "Commitment Events" in the Event Tool's Front Page's Dropdown.  Issue resolved in 25 hours.
• PDTR Outage Creator: Now you can ensure you don't create PDTR outages on any zero-impedance bus ties. Feature added in 13 days. 

PAT 2.25.5 (May 17, 2022)

• You know how when you tap into a branch and create PROMOD templates in the Powerflow tool?  Know how it automatically sweeps through your events, fixing any disruptions caused by the tapped line?  Well now we will also automatically sweep through any PDTR transmission line outages and fix those too!  This big new feature was added in 2 hours!
• Small improvement to Read Change RDCH raw output when a unit is out of service in the AC file, but not in the PAT.  The unit is now turned on in the AC and uses the PAT's MW dispatch.  
• Small improvement to our warning system.  Now you can see non-conforming load ("NCL") by bus when the area is swamped by a fixed non-conforming total.  This is a bad thing as it creates negative load scales.  We now report this bad thing in the pink box (individual bus NCL for debugging in PROMOD). 

PAT 2.25.4 (April 25, 2022)

• Fix the H-C clear button on the 3rd tab

PAT 2.25.3 (April 13, 2022)

• Congestion Tool Middle Tab: Now you can pick a month and see a summary of congestion results for that month. 
• Help File Improvements: Now you can actually search for key words in the Search Tab.  And we replaced some blurry images with sharper pictures.  
• Unit Siting Tool Formatting: Constraints Tab table and graph can be copied to clipboard and all labels are visible

PAT 2.25.2 (April 6, 2022)

• Bug Fix: Fixed a rare crash in the H-C Tool.  If you're trying to do Gen-Weighted Congestion Analysis, and you have a TRN file with missing data, it will now bark at you instead of crashing.  Not literally.... but wouldn't it be fun if it was?  Bug fixed in 3 hours. 

PAT 2.25.1 (March 25, 2022)

• Unit Siting Improvement: Now you can define your own renewable profiles.  Feature added in 4 hours.
• Bug Fix: Fixed a rare crash in the Shift Factor Tool's filter.  Bug fixed in 1 hour. 

PAT 2.25.0 (March 16, 2022)

• Introducing the Outage Correlation Tool!  Now you can see correlation between transmission outages and a constraint's shadow price history.  Log in first, then check out the new training video here.  

PAT 2.24.8 (February 15, 2022)

• Under-the-hood Security Improvements

PAT 2.24.7 (February 11, 2022)

• Now you can ignore PARs and Interfaces when creating random outage draws with the PDTR Tool. 
• Unit Siting Tool: we cleaned up a row error issue causing a failure to solve in certain hours in certain circumstances. Not quite all the way fixed, but improved. 

PAT 2.24.6 (February 1, 2022)

• ​Branch Templates sometimes did not match from/to order for PROMOD.  Issue resolved in 2 hours. 
• In certain circumstance, the CSV report containing Bus Injection results was incomplete.  Issue resolved in 12 hours. 

PAT 2.24.5 (January 31, 2022) 

• PDTR Tool Enhancement: Now you can ignore PARs and interface/nomogram members when creating random outage draws.  New feature added in 8 hours. 

PAT 2.24.4 (January 26, 2022)

• Bug Fix: !RBP is now properly displayed in your EVE files when saving with "Removed by PAT" selected. Issue resolved in 48 hours. 

PAT 2.24.3 (January 26, 2022)

• Bug Fix: The program is now properly calculating LMP in the rare circumstance where a DC-tie is part of a nomogram. 

PAT 2.24.2 (January 24, 2022)

• Press the Upload Button and the popup now auto-populates with any PROMOD files you've loaded into the PAT. 
• Congestion Report - More generating unit information added. 
• Unit Siting Tool - Fixes to Battery Siting LP errors that pop up in very specific circumstances.  

PAT 2.24.1 (January 12, 2022)

• Bug Fix: RAW File to PFF Conversion - Bus Templates now include the new bus created by converting a 3-winding transformer.   

PAT 2.24.0 (January 6, 2022)

• Now you can correlate PDTR Transmission Outages and a Constraint's Shadow Price History! Log in and check out this training video. 
• Unit Siting Tool - Obscure bug in the Battery Siting capability found and solved.  The LP had a bad starting point in certain circumstances that would drive results to la-la land.  Bug fixed in 1 hour. 
• Unit Siting Tool results will now properly automatically save after a run is complete. 
• Improved Loading Screen.
• Bug Fix: The math in the Renewable Viewer's Correlation Tab was off in certain circumstances.  Bug fixed in 12 hours. 

PAT 2.23.8 (December 22, 2021)

• Unit Siting Tool minor fixes: You no longer have to hide temporary constraints on the front page before solving.  You can now properly assign capacities to each site as described in the Help File.

PAT 2.23.7 (December 21, 2021)

• Bug Fix: After reading a PAT generated CSV Event File, subsequently saving a new CSV Event File will now properly save all contingency constraints.  Fixed in 8 hours. 

PAT 2.23.6 (December 17, 2021)

• Bug Fix: Unit Siting Tool - subscript error removed from the script that writes out the results.  If it didn't crash, you didn't have the problem.  

PAT 2.23.5 (December 15, 2021)

• Bug Fix: When comparing a RAW File and a PFF in the PFF Compare Tool, any branch templates you create will correctly use the RAW File's branch number instead of the PFF bus number. 

PAT 2.23.4 (December 15, 2021)

• Bug Fix: Battery Siting Tool was not properly setting cost curve for hours when its acting as a load.  Fixed in 1 day.

PAT 2.23.3 (December 15, 2021)

• Bug Fix: In the Contingency Evaluator tool, when using highly complex contingencies (4+) with a very tight Shift Factor Tolerance, in some circumstances the magnitude of flows to identify monitored branches were incorrectly too high, resulting in the creation of more Mons than was necessary.  Fixed in 3 HARD days. 

PAT 2.23.2 (December 15, 2021)

• You can now select all the hours in a day on the Hour Selection Tool.  Useful for the Battery Siting Tool.  Feature added in  8 hours.
• Now the PAT calculates the energy component of a Hub with buses in multiple pools using the largest pool's value, not the pool from the first bus in the hub definition.  Issue resolved in 3 days. 
• The Renewable Viewer's Correlation Tab now properly accounts for curtailment. Bug fixed in 4 hours. 
• Security Improvements: Additional encryption on File Upload Tool
• PDTR Outage Creation: The label reporting the number of new outages created now also includes the total number of "Hours Out".  Feature added in 4 days. 

PAT 2.23.1 (December 13, 2021)

• Now the PAT will automatically determine the Pss/E Version number, even if it's on the wrong line.  Issue resolved in 2 hours. 
• Unit Siting Tool results will now automatically save after your run is complete.  Now your results are safe, even your IT department unexpectedly restarts your computers.  Feature added in 47 days.  Thank you for your patience Leidos!

PAT 2.23.0 (December 8, 2021)

• The PAT & APC Reporter are together at last!  Drag a constraint from the PAT into APC Reporter and see Shift Factors!  Log in and check out this training video. 

PAT 2.22.9 (December 8, 2021)

• Security improvements to the Microsoft Storage system behind the Upload button.

PAT 2.22.8 (December 2, 2021) 

•  A new kV limit in the Unit Siting Tool's lets you discriminate based on kV when creating temporary constraints.  Feature added in 24 hours.
• The Renewables Viewer lets you find all the renewable units within a given radius from a given bus. Feature added in 4 hours. 

PAT 2.22.7 (November 19, 2021)

• Bug Fix on the ISO Report.  Now the reported heat rates are correct.  Computationally, the correct heat rates have always been used.  This was just reporting.  Fixed in 1 hour. 

PAT 2.22.6 (November 11, 2021)

• Major Bug Fix:  The Unit Siting Tool stopped being able to solve multiple hours in certain circumstances.  We fixed the problem in 8 hours.  
• Bug Fix: In very rare circumstances, the PAT was unable to read the PROMOD-generated branch names in the PFF.  Problem fixed in 4 hours.   

PAT 2.22.5 (November 2, 2021)

• New Batch Script Command: now you can create a CSV with all the shift factor for a user-defined scope. Feature added in 8 hours. 

PAT 2.22.4 (October 27, 2021)

• Using the Save Zip Archive option on the File Menu will now grab the TRN file from your run. Bug fixed in 20 hours. 

PAT 2.22.3 (October 18, 2021)

• The Renewables Viewer now allows you to correlate renewable sites based on their actual curtailment and dispatch instead of their scheduled output.  
• Bug fix: When dragging branches into the Event Tool from the PowerFlow Tool, the from/to bus order no longer must match the order in the PFF.  
• Bug fix: When your prototype profile is also a point of injection, the Unit Siting Tool will no longer lose its mind.  Note: We don't recommend siting a second unit at a bus with the same profile, as curtailment results may be skewed. 

PAT 2.22.2 (October 4, 2021)

• Due to changes associated with a new feature added in June 2021, the H-C Tool's average results was incorrectly including the 2-week window at the start of an 8760 run.  It no longer does this. 

PAT 2.22.1 (September 29, 2021)

• New button on the Unit Siting Tool's Constraints Tab lets you save results to an Excel report. 
• Bug Fix: The Contingency Evaluator no longer mis-types PARs in branch templates when no N-0 constraints are found.  Problem solved in 18 hours. 

PAT 2.22.0 (September 24, 2021)

• New Battery Siting Tool! Find the most lucrative site to build an energy storage unit.  Log in and check out this training video.  

PAT 2.21.0 (September 10, 2021)

• New Pass System in the Contingency Evaluator! Instead of manually working through the resolve process, now you can automatically loop as many passes as you'd like, or as are needed, whichever is fewer.  Log in and check out this new training video.  New capability added over 7 days. 
• Now you can choose to use limits from the EVE file (instead of the PFF) in the Contingency Evaluator. Feature added in 5 hours. 
• In the Event Tool's Diagnostics Tab, you can detect and remove monitored branches that are radial to a generator.  Feature added in 3 hours.  
• Data protection security enhancements.

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PAT 2.20.16 (September 8, 2021)

• Now the Congestion Report now calculates LODFs for active transmission outages caused by PDTR.  New feature added in 7 hours. 

PAT 2.20.15 (September 8, 2021)

• NERC CIP security enhancements.
• Bug Fix: When reading a list of contingencies in the Contingency Evaluator, the PAT will now preserve the name instead of automatically rebuilding it using the from/to buses.  Issue resolved in 12 days. 

PAT 2.20.14 (August 24, 2021)

• New Graph: Click on the H-C Tool's Dispatch column to see a plot of dispatch vs. time (try curtailment too!)
• Bug Fix: Congestion Report now correctly handles 2 units, 1 bus. 

PAT 2.20.13 (August 24, 2021)

• Enhancements to the PDTR Tool's Random Outage Creation Tab.  Log in and then watch this training video. 
• NERC CIP security enhancements.

PAT 2.20.12 (August 19, 2021)

• Now you can for bad event limits in a specific season (summer or winter) on the Event Tool's Diagnostics Tab.  

PAT 2.20.11 (August 9, 2021)

• That thing we said we fixed in PAT 2.20.10 is really fixed now.  Promise. 

PAT 2.20.10 (August 9, 2021)

• Bug Fix: the PAT was crashing when saving Powerbase templates under certain conditions.  Issue resolved in 1 hour. 

PAT 2.20.9 (August 2, 2021)

• In exceedingly rare and unusual circumstances (when load balance constraint and spin reserve constraint penalty factors were not the same, and when they were both non-basic for a particular LP iteration), an inaccurate spin reserve soft constraint penalty may have been applied in the LP.  

PAT 2.20.8 (July 21, 2021)

• When PROMOD truncates the PFF path in your HRX file, now you only have to manually identify your PFF once, not once per segment. 

PAT 2.20.7 (July 19, 2021)

• Fixed a rare bug: the Contingency Evaluator can now handle multiple bus and branch events for a single branch with a PAR on one end. Bug fixed in 36 weekend hours.

PAT 2.20.6 (July 14, 2021)

• New graphs in the FLO CON Tool! Now the histograms show hours with positive and negative values on them. Also, you can see hourly flows and select hours to solve right on the tool.  Check out the latest Help File for more info. 

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PAT 2.20.5 (July 13, 2021)

• Shift Factor Tool Improvement.  Got unique PDTR-driven topologies?  Now you can pick a period and recalculate shift factors for that period's topology.  Also, we added a Shift Factor Tool training video here. 
• PDTR Outage Creator changes.  New kV ranges and season definitions that line up with values used by the ISOs. 
• Unit Siting Tool Congestion Tab. Now you can choose to see which constraints are causing congestion across all selected hours, not just the hours in which curtailment occurred. 
• PFF Compare bug fix: one of the new buttons would crash under certain circumstances. 

PAT 2.20.4 (July 12, 2021)

• PFF Compare Tool Improvements.  Compare two PFF's, PFF & a RAW file, or two RAW files.  Build PROMOD bus and branch templates for anything missing. 
• Rare data issue fixed.  The PAT won't have any problems reading an HRX with interfaces with commas in their name. Bug fixed in 64 minutes. 

PAT 2.20.3 (July 6, 2021)

• H-C Tool Changes: Dispatch MW column added, Curtailment graph added, Sum/Avg. header text fixed.  
• Bug Fix: Branch Tap PROMOD templates use BaseYear from first PFF record instead of the year 2000.
• Contingency Evaluator will no longer interrupt a long run when too many infeasibilities exist. 
• The Scope Tool's "Hub Scopes" now applies to the dropdowns on the LMP calculator on the LP Solution Page, making it easier to sort. 

PAT 2.20.2 (June 14, 2021)

• Bug Fix: The PAT can now handle HRX files from PROMOD runs for partial years that don't start at the beginning of the year. Issue resolved in 22 hours. 

PAT 2.20.1 (April 22, 2021)

• Bug Fix: Creating an Event File with FLO/CON Tool won't crash when interface names are absent in Nomograms. Issue resolved in 26 hours. 

PAT 2.20.0 (April 12, 2021)

• New Curtailment Congestion Drivers Tab on the Unit Siting Tool!  Check out the training video. 
• Non-conforming Load Bug Fixed.  A very rare problem explained in this training video. 
• Now you can see 8760 total curtailment on H-C Tool's front page when you select a renewable unit. 
• Batch Mode Additions: Batch-ask for the H-C Tool's Average Tab, and you'll get summer/winter ratings and a Shift Factor from source for each constraint. 

PAT 2.19.9 (March 16, 2021)

• Bug Fix: Batch Mode Congestion Report now properly showing contingency name.  Fixed in 22 hours. 

PAT 2.19.8 (March 10, 2021)

• Power Flow Tool Bus Dropdown: Select recently viewed buses from a dropdown menu on the main bus. 

PAT 2.19.7 (March 9, 2021)

• Security Improvements

PAT 2.19.6 (March 9, 2021)

• Introducing Silent Mode: Now your multi-hour runs (Contingency Evaluator, Unit Siting, etc.) will not be interrupted by pop-ups for any reason.  PAT automatically goes into Silent Mode when running multi-hour.
• Tiny nit: added "Base Case" to the H-C Tool's Average Tab Batch Output.  

PAT 2.19.5 (March 8, 2021)

• H-C Tool's Average Tab Batch Mode Changes: Monthly reports now batch available.  Also some small changes: column order, summer/winter ratings added. 

PAT 2.19.4 (March 2, 2021)

• H-C Tool Improvement: now you can pick a month and see which constraints are most impacting basis in that month. 
• Expanded Batch Mode: now you can batch-generate the H-C Tool's Gen Weighted and Average Congestion Reports.

PAT 2.19.3 (February 25, 2021)

• Fixed a bug in the Unit Siting Tool. 

PAT 2.19.2 (February 24, 2021)

• Bug Fix: Resolved an error when reading a CON file into the Contingency Evaluator. Resolved in 28 hours. 

PAT 2.19.1 (February 23, 2021)

• PFF Compare Tool: Compare a normal PFF with a tiny override PFF instead of auto-merging. 
• Upload Tool: Now handles groups with an "_" in their name. 

PAT 2.19.0 (February 16, 2021)

• We replaced the FTP!  Now you can use the new Upload Button to share files with us. Check out the Training Video. 

PAT 2.18.0 (February 11, 2021)

• Hourly Curtailment in the H-C Tool!  Now that we use the TRN, we can display hourly curtailment.
• New Data Requirements tab in the Help File: How to get data from PROMOD. (TVAL in the TRN)

PAT 2.17.8 (February 8, 2021)

• HRX Naming: Now we can handle segmented PROMOD solutions that end in "-S"... "-S-S1", etc..
• Bug fix: Unit Siting Tool was using the default MW capacity value instead of allowing you to assign.  

PAT 2.17.7 (February 5, 2021)

• LODF Tool: Constraint builder now allows for negative LODFs to be used. 

PAT 2.17.6 (February 5, 2021)

• RDCH format fix: switched columns were throwing the answer off by 100. Issue fixed in 23 hours. 
• Power Flow Tool: Rarely used Merge Buses button shows which Events need to be manually changed. 

PAT 2.17.5 (February 1, 2021)

• ​Bug Fix: Batch mode was not combining multiple segments correctly.  Issue resolved in 70 minutes. 

PAT 2.17.4 (January 29, 2021)

• ​Bug Fix: If your Event File had particularly bad nomogram data, it could crash the program.  Issue fixed in 23 hours.
• Security and In-app Updater Improvements.

PAT 2.17.3 (January 27, 2021)

• ​Bug Fix: FLO/CON Tool filter string was null causing a crash in certain circumstances. Issued fixed in 47 minutes. 

PAT 2.17.2 (January 26,2021)

• Tiny change: When you pick a basis hub on the LMP Tab of the Solution Window, we no longer display the Marginal Unit or Constraint grids as they do not reflect hub split.  

PAT 2.17.1 (January 25, 2021)

• Run time speed and Security Improvements.
• Loss Calculation Speed Restoration: Stopped calculating loss penalty factors when calculating hourly losses as added in PAT 2.15.1.  A big difference if you are solving 8760.  

​PAT 2.17.0 (January 22, 2021)

• ​​Batch Mode Added! Check out the new  training video.

PAT 2.16.6 (January 20, 2021)

• Bug Fix: The Unit Siting Tool was not reporting the LMP for Hubs selected for LMP tracking. Fixed in 3 hours. 

PAT 2.16.5 (January 20, 2021)

• Bug Fix: The FLO/CON Tool was not properly accounting for time varying branch limits.  Fixed issue in 17.5 hours. 

PAT 2.16.4 (January 18, 2021)

• Bug Fix: Now we can handle very large TRN files.  Issue fixed in 3 days: notified after 5pm on Friday.  Resolved by 5pm on Monday, a holiday. 
• Release Notes Added: Now you can click a link in the In-App update that will bring you to this page. 

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PAT 2.16.3 (January 15, 2021)

• Using TRN instead of WTHC:  We've stopped using the WTHC file in favor of the TRN which has a better format, and more data.  Now renewable dispatch and curtailment are known precisely for each hour. 
• Bug Fix: Interface Limits: If your data had blanks for interface winter ratings, the PAT formerly set them equal to zero.  Now it sets them equal to the summer values.  Fixed issue in 19 hours. 
• Bug Fix: Unit Siting Topology Changes: When solving multiple hours where one required a topology change, the PAT failed to reset the new shift factor column for the injection bus.  Fixed issue in 7 days. 
• Bug Fix: Load Entities vs. Buses:  If you have more load entities than load buses, the PFF would fail to read.  Fixed issue in 22 hours.​

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PAT 2.16.2 (January 6, 2021)

• H-C Tool: Bug caused a pop-up after solving an hour.  Fixed the issue in 47 minutes. 

PAT 2.16.1 (January 5, 2021)

• Power Flow Tool: Now you can add and create templates for multiple branch taps all-at-once.  Check out the new training video. 
• PFF Compare Tool: Now you can create PROMOD templates from an AC RAW File.  Check out the new training video.

PAT 2.16.0 (December 23, 2020)

• Gen Weighted Congestion in the H-C Tool!

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PAT 2.15.1 (December 21, 2020)

• H-C Tool: New float over graph on the Constraint tab.  Hover your mouse over an hour column and see a graph of monthly shadow price sum. 
• Hub Templates: Read in a CSV to create a hub.  Save a hub template for putting it back into PROMOD. 
• Unit Siting Bug: In a very narrow set of circumstances, a newly installed unit would use the wrong cost curve. 
• Congestion Report Automatic Mode: Now the list of displayed hubs and zones will automatically filter to the ones relevant to your selected constraint. 
• Hourly Losses: Now you can save hourly losses.

​PAT 2.15.0 (December 16, 2020)

• In-app update added!

 

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​APC Reporter

APC Reporter 1.28.11 (May 23, 2023)

• New Feature: Batch update now allows reporting for Total LMP. This enables only the Total LMP to be reported, otherwise all LMP components are reported. Feature added in 1 hour.
  

APC Reporter 1.28.10 (May 23, 2023)

• New Feature: Annual summary is now added to unit tracking batch command. New Feature added in 2 Hours.
• New Feature: Finally, you no longer need to sort your files by the last date modified to find your batch generated reports. Now you may specify a desired output folder in your batch command file. New feature added in 2 Hours.
  

APC Reporter 1.28.9 (April 24, 2023)

• New Feature: If a battery candidate CSV name contains a comma, we are now removing that comma from the name. "YourBattery,LLC" now becomes "YourBattery LLC". Additionally, a unique number is now added to each "C" and "D" battery ID to ensure multiple batteries at the same bus are unique . New feature added in 1 hour.

APC Reporter 1.28.8 (April 20, 2023)

• New Feature: Now you can read a PFF override file with additional project information. If an ".IN" file exists, it's automatically examined. The original PFF is first read, followed by any additions or overrides in the 2nd PFF file. New feature added in 5 Days.
• New Feature: Now you can run APC Reporter in PJM with a very limited set of data. LOL, TRN, & ARR files are no longer required. There will be missing reports and APC calculations will be incorrect, but will be more useful if you are only interested in Production Cost. New feature added in 2 weeks.
• New Feature: The INI file in your executable folder will remember which ISO you viewed last, so you don't have to switch from MISO to PJM or SPP each time. New feature added in 2 weeks.

APC Reporter 1.28.7 (April 12, 2023)

• New Feature: TransactionTypes.CSV now overrides unit type or name. You can call a unit "wind", even if it has "solar" in the name. New feature added in 30 minutes.
• New Feature: Batch Mode can now span multiple years that do not start on January 1st, you can add as many years as you like as long as the data is supported. Added in 4 Hours.

APC Reporter 1.28.6 (April 7, 2023)

• Bug Fix: In the LMP Batch hourly report, hour 24 was reported to be in the next day, instead of the end of the current day.  Bug fixed in 30 minutes.  Released after 9 weeks because it slipped through the cracks. 

APC Reporter 1.28.5 (March 23, 2023)

• ​Made the LOL file optional, however, in most cases this is not recommended as certain calculations will be affected. 

​APC Reporter 1.28.4 (March 10, 2023)

• ​Multiple Battery Optimization Enhancements:
  • Bug Fix: now you can evaluate batteries at multiple solar units on the same bus.
  • New Feature: now you can independently evaluate different battery sizes at the same bus. This helps you find the most lucrative battery SIZES.
  • New Feature: now you can battery-pair with a PV unit when there's also a thermal unit at that bus.
  • New Feature: now you can read in a CSV of unique batteries in PV-Paired mode, formerly only allowed in arbitrage.
  • We added these new features over the course of 2 weeks working with a talented new customer!

​APC Reporter 1.28.3 (January 31, 2023)

• Internal Security Enhancement.

APC Reporter 1.28.2 (January 17, 2023)

• Small Bug Fix: In certain conditions, APC Reporter was including trailing hours after the final study date in the Data View Page's graphs. Bug fixed in 42 days.  Very small, display-only bug. 
• SPP Crash Fix: APC Reporter no longer crashes if (i) you are using SPP's APC calculation method and (ii) KACY or SWPAALL areas are absent from your data.  Bug fixed in 2 hours. 

APC Reporter 1.28.1 (January 4, 2023)

• Annual reset to secure link behind the Upload Button. 

APC Reporter 1.28.0 (December 8, 2022) 

• New Co-Located Battery Optimization Mode! In addition to Arbitrage and PV-Paired Mode, Co-Located Mode optimizes batteries while limiting combined PV and battery output to PV capacity. 

APC Reporter 1.27.16 (December 6, 2022)

• New Feature: Now we can handle a PROMOD ATC File with a date that doesn't match the rest of your PROMOD files.  Feature added in 4 hours. 

APC Reporter 1.27.15 (November 16, 2022)

• Small bug fix: When a partial year is studied, the final month did not appear in the results. Turn around time: 2 hours.

APC Reporter 1.27.14 (November 9, 2022)

• Introducing... "TB4"!  This new metric is the average of the four highest and lowest hours in a day, over a year.  See it in action on the Battery Tab, LMP Averages Unit-Level, and the Hybrid Summary.  

APC Reporter 1.27.13 (November 8, 2022)

• New Batch Script Commands: "Weekend", "Peak Start Hour", and "Format Narrow".  Now you can include weekends in peak/off peak, shift peak hours, and implement a tidier, narrower set of reports. 

APC Reporter 1.27.12 (November 7, 2022)

• New Feature: Creating purchase/sale transaction templates to model battery storage in PROMOD?  Now we remove generator prefixes so they all have unique names.  New feature added in 30 minutes. 

APC Reporter 1.27.11 (November 3, 2022)

• New Batch Script! The FLO Report has a new database-friendly format. 

APC Reporter 1.27.10 (November 2, 2022) 

• Bug Fix: Unit Hourly no longer crashes when pulling renewable transaction data.  The new date format we added to accommodate Excel wasn't implemented flawlessly.  Whoopsie Daisey.  

APC Reporter 1.27.9 (October 20, 2022)

• 3 New Batch Scripts: (1) Now you can add "monthly" to the dispatch and LMP reports to generate monthly averages; (2) now you can "Format = narrow" to see a reduced set of columns; and (3) now you can "Year = all" and handle PROMOD runs that span multiple years, if you crazy like that. 

APC Reporter 1.27.8 (October 18, 2022)

• New Feature: Got a bus with more than one solar unit?  Now you can pair a battery with each of them (not just a single one) when doing Battery Optimization. 

APC Reporter 1.27.7 (October 17, 2022)

• New Feature: Instead of using a simple string, grid-copy date formats have all been changed to mm/dd/yyyy, which is recognized by Excel.  
• New Feature: Added a 5th column to the Battery Candidate CSV so you can specify a battery name when creating purchase and sale transactions to send battery dispatch/commitment results back to PROMOD as templates. 
• New Feature: Now when you save Unit Hourly results to Excel, the list will be sorted alphabetically. 
• New Feature: Now the Company Summary has even more columns!  Effluent output for each company for each type now shown on the far right.  

APC Reporter 1.27.6 (October 3, 2022)

• Small bug fix in the Interpool Tab's display.  Now the hour columns stay where they should when switching between hourly and monthly views. 

​APC Reporter 1.27.5 (September 14, 2022)

• Battery Template Update
  • Add column to battery template - MappingType
  • Bug Fix: Multiply Discharge rate by efficiency in template on th edischarge schedule
  • Bug Fix: Fix template start date

APC Reporter 1.27.4 (September 7, 2022)

• New Feature: The dropdown on the Unit Hourly Tab is now alphabetized.  Feature added in 14 days.  It's the summer, leave us alone.  
• New Feature: If you select the Dump File from CON radio option, APC Reporter will remember it. Feature added in 12 days. 

APC Reporter 1.27.3 (August 1, 2022)

• Rare Bug Fix: In certain circumstances, segmented FLO files were not showing up.  Now they are.   Turn around time: 1 hour.

APC Reporter 1.27.2 (July 29, 2022)

• Crash Fix: If you are missing the FLO file and try to use the Flow Tool, Reporter no longer crasher.  Nor will it crash if you are missing a PLND record for your flow.  Bug fixed in 1-hour. 

APC Reporter 1.27.1 (July 28, 2022)

• Major Battery Improvement: Now you can send "Selfish" Battery Optimization results back to PROMOD as hourly Purchase & Sale Transactions.  ​​

APC Reporter 1.27.0 (July 26, 2022)

• SPP APC Calculation 100% accurate. Market Value now properly accounts for charging and discharging cycles. 
• Battery Improvement: Now our method handles multiple, unique battery storage units at a single bus.  

APC Reporter 1.26.8 (July 19, 2022)

• Battery Improvement: Now you can check a box and see hourly LMP for the days the Selfish Optimization Method didn't have the unit running. 
• And we improved the selfish algorithm, preventing miniscule discharge amounts when paired with a PV-solar unit.
• SPP APC Calculation: Getting closer.  Error is down to 0.00000000% everywhere except AECI.  We'll get there soon. 

APC Reporter 1.26.7 (July 19, 2022)

• Got a 1-week run?  The LMP Point-to-Point page will no longer show "NAN" for months with no LMP data. 

APC Reporter 1.26.6 (July 13, 2022)

• New Feature: A new button on the Battery Tab creates Transaction Templates (Purchases & Sales) so you can send battery storage charge/discharge profiles back to PROMOD.  Now you can optimize storage in APC Reporter and send battery schedules back to PROMOD.  Feature added in 14 hours. 
• Bug fix: Sale transactions are now displayed properly on the Unit Tracking tab.  Important only if you're sending battery transactions (purchases/sales with hourly battery charge/discharge schedules) back to PROMOD (i.e. Optimizing batteries in APC Reporter instead of PROMOD).
• New Feature: Now you can read battery parameters (capacity, efficiency, charge rate, discharge rate) for groups of batteries.  Makes it easier to generate charge/discharge profiles (see above) for groups of batteries, before sending back to PROMOD. Again, only useful if you are using APC Reporter to optimize batteries instead of PROMOD.  Feature added in 12 hours. 
• New Feature: Reporting LMP with the Point-to-Point page?  Now you can check and uncheck all areas on the pop-up instead of checking them off individually.  Feature added in 5 hours. 

APC Reporter 1.26.5 (July 6, 2022)

• Enhanced the LMP Report Batch Script: Now you can limit reported buses to those above a specified minimum kV level within a certain footprint.  New Feature added in 5 business days. 
• Pop up error added when using the SPP APC Calculation Method: Now you'll get warned if your zones (companies) don't have load-weighted LMP assigned in the BUS file. Only applies to SPP method.  For other methods, you ought to have load-weighted LMP for the demand-charge calculation even though it's not used for calculating APC. 

APC Reporter 1.26.4 (July 5, 2022)

• Bug fix in the Selfish Battery Optimization: Arbitrage Mode will no longer crash if you select a bus with no LMP. 

APC Reporter 1.26.3 (July 5, 2022)

• Small enhancements to the Selfish Battery Optimization's PV-paired Mode: now showing State of Charge, and now allowing batteries to directly reduce PV curtailment.

APC Reporter 1.26.2 (June 27, 2022)

• Fixes bug when reading battery sites.

APC Reporter 1.26.1 (June 24, 2022)

• Additional update to SPP APC method to improve accuracy.

APC Reporter 1.26.0 (June 24, 2022)

• Corrected a Serious Error in SPP APC Calculation Method: A change to the MISO APC calculation method we made in May 2021 was mistakenly also applied to the SPP method.  We have fixed the error and are now within 4% of SPP's actual method.  We are working to drive that to 0% and are taking several steps to ensure this doesn't happen again.  Thank you for your patience.  Bug repair is ongoing, but results improved in 7 days. 
• Fixed two bugs in the new Selfish Battery Optimization.  The first: the appearance of extra discharge hours.  The second: the application of losses to each hours discharge that prevents an infeasible State Of Charge after shallow discharges.   Bugs repaired in 7 days.  
• New Batch Script: Renewable Summary now available in batch mode.  Feature added in 10 weeks.  Other things popped up and was more difficult that first appeared! 

APC Reporter 1.25.0 (June 16, 2022)

• Introducing "Selfish" Battery Optimization!!  Now you can commit and dispatch individual batteries in APC Reporter with the objective of maximizing battery revenue instead of minimizing the cost of thousands of generators in a huge network.  Optimize your battery in stand-alone pure Arbitrage Mode or paired with a PV Solar unit. 

APC Reporter 1.24.1 (June 8, 2022)

• Improvement to the FLO Tab: We now (somewhat poorly) report the number of hours a constraint has spent at it's limit.  We use the PFF's PLND Table for the ratings, NOT the EVE File, which has the actual ratings.  So consume with salt.  New feature added in 8 days. 

APC Reporter 1.24.0 (May 20, 2022)

• APC Reporter reads the FLO File!  Now you can see statistics and hourly flows on all your interfaces, nomograms, and constraints on the new FLO Tab. 
• In the LMP Point-to-point Tab, now (i) you can select None in the Sink dropdown and get stats and gen weighted analysis on a single point, (ii) sorting by date sorts by date, not alphabetically, and (iii) a filter was added so that instead of automatically showing all companies, it shows the ones you've selected on the Data View Tab.  These new features added after a few back and forths, but ultimately took 24 days. 

APC Reporter 1.23.6 (April 13, 2022)

• Bug Fix: When you want to share a PROMOD run with us, you read a case into APC Reporter and press the Upload Button.  We automatically populate a list of PROMOD files, and now that list includes the PFF file.  Kind of an important one! 
• Bug Fix: Have you ever looked at the details for a single hour?  Probably not, but if you did, maybe you realized that it always said "Gathering Details for Hour...".  Even long after the details were gathered.  Now the label disappears when the details have been gathered, as desired.   
• Help File Improvements: Now you can actually search with the Search Tab.  Woot!

APC Reporter 1.23.5 (February 15, 2022)

• Under-the-hood Security Improvements

APC Reporter 1.23.4 (February 1, 2022)

• Bug Fix: The addition of a 5th MISO aluminum load caused a crash when reading data.  Bug fixed in 5 hours. 

APC Reporter 1.23.3 (January 26, 2022)

• Now you can select units on the LMP Averages Tab to see their LMP statistics.  A very nice little option.  Feature created in 4 hours.  Feature tested and released in 35 days.  
• Now you can select Hybrid Units on the LMP Point-to-Point Tab.  The combined, gross MW of the hybrid unit is used for Gen-weighted LMP.  
• Improved loading screen.
• Press the Upload button and the pop up will automatically populate with any PROMOD files you've read. 

APC Reporter 1.23.2 (January 3, 2022)

• Hybrid Unit Summary now has Hybrid Gen Weighted LMP = (Battery + Wind + Solar Revenue) / (Battery +Wind + Solar MW). 
• Rounding error in display (not calculation) fixed.  Table values are now doubles so manually summed sums sum same as calculated sums.  
• Improved Loading Screen.

APC Reporter 1.23.1 (December 13, 2021) 

• Downloading Hub LMP on the Point-2-Point Tab?  Now companies are automatically unchecked. Feature added in 3 hours.

APC Reporter 1.23.0 (December 8, 2021)

• The PAT & APC Reporter are together at last!  Drag a constraint from the PAT into APC Reporter and see Shift Factors!  Log in and check out this training video. 

APC Reporter 1.22.18 (November 18, 2021)

• Now every bus in the BUS file will show up in the LMP Point-to-point Tab.  Issue fixed in 15 minutes.
• New Batch Mode: LMP average CSV report. Feature added in 8 hours. 
• Bug Fix: No more annoying pop-ups when a bus number has a comma in it.  Bug fixed in 4 hours. 

APC Reporter 1.22.17 (November 5, 2021)

• Now you can pick either Units or Buses as Sources on the LMP Point-2-Point page.  

APC Reporter 1.22.16 (September 29, 2021)

• Dump MW is now included in the Hybrid Unit Summary statistics.  This was added along with a host of other small changes over a 13 day period. 

APC Reporter 1.22.15 (September 24, 2021)

• The MISO LSE percentage was improperly set to 100% in batch mode, instead of 80% as desired. This is the percentage of the return on FTRs.  Issue resolved in 22 days, but only 8 hours after our 2nd reminder. 

APC Reporter 1.22.14 (September 8, 2021)

• Bug fix: In Batch Mode only, within pool cost in the MISO APC calculation was using gen weighted LMP when it shouldn't have been.  Issue resolved in 5 days. 

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APC Reporter 1.22.13 (August 31, 2021) 

• Unit Hourly Month View: Now you can pick a month and see that unit's data in tabular or graph form.  Now the Unit Hourly graphs might actually be useful?  This new feature was added in 3 business days. 

APC Reporter 1.22.12 (August 27, 2021)

• Bug Fix: When units with invalid tracking dates were tracked it caused a data-read crash. Resolved in 22 hours. 
• Bug Fix: No more "Priming the Pump" working correctly for multiple cases w/ units.  Resolved in 38 hours.

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APC Reporter 1.22.11 (August 24, 2021)

• NERC CIP security enhancements.

APC Reporter 1.22.10 (August 9, 2021)

• Generation on Data View disagreed with generation on Company Summary because Data View included pumped hydro.  Now it only reports thermal generation.  Does Not Affect APC!

APC Reporter 1.22.9 (July 19, 2021)

• The default view on the Data View tab is set to the entire year, not just January.  Since we started pre-loading Data View in version 1.22.6, it no longer makes sense to view January only by default.  Responded in 26 (weekend) hours.

APC Reporter 1.22.8 (July 16, 2021)

• Renewable Summary values will now update when switching between On/Off-peak and 'Round The Clock (RTC). 

APC Reporter 1.22.7 (July 13, 2021)

• Now APC Reporter will ignore any pool loads in your LOD file instead generating multiple pop up warnings. 

APC Reporter 1.22.6 (July 7, 2021)

• No more "Priming the Pump" after reading data.  All RTO's will be selected and displayed on the Data View tab.  You don't have to check "All" and press Refresh after reading anymore.  

APC Reporter 1.22.5 (June 23, 2021)

• Batch Mode Improvement: Now you can pull hourly LMP components by Bus with batch mode.  Check out how in this training video (click again if you aren't logged in). 
• Bug Fix: Under certain circumstances, wind units weren't showing up on the Options Page after reading the PFF.  Issue resolved in 3 days.  

APC Reporter 1.22.4 (June 23, 2021)

• Now you can see Hourly Basis values on the LMP Point-2-Point Tab! Check out this training video (click again if you aren't logged in). New feature added in 3 days. 

APC Reporter 1.22.3 (June 17, 2021)

• Bug Fix: If you are missing loss and congestion LMP data (the BS1 and BS2 files), APC Reporter will show zeros in loss and congestion weighted renewable basis calculation results. Issue resolved in 3 hours. 
• Security Enhancement: Now it's easier to reset your token.

APC Reporter 1.22.2 (June 14, 2021)

• Added loss and congestion weighted basis rows to Renewable Summary Tab (Interactive Version). 

APC Reporter 1.22.1 (May 26, 2021)

• Update to the MISO APC calculation method.  In test cases, APC Reporter successfully calculated $60,000,000,000+ in APC with 100% accuracy.   Across 8760 and 85 companies, the largest hourly difference (error) was $0.56.

APC Reporter 1.22.0 (May 18, 2021)

• Update to the MISO APC Calculation Method.  

APC Reporter 1.21.3 (May 6, 2021)

• Bug Fix: Now Reporter will run in single pool models like ERCOT.  Issue fixed in 3 hours.  ​

APC Reporter 1.21.2 (May 5, 2021)

• Bug Fix: Batch mode no longer crashes when the PFF is missing.  Issue fixed in 27 days.  Yikes.  

APC Reporter 1.21.1 (April 28, 2021)

• Bug Fix: Point-to-Point LMP now accurately calculates gen-weighted LMP on a monthly basis.  

APC Reporter 1.21.0 (April 22, 2021)

• MISO APC Calculation Method corrected. Now properly accounting for Emergency Generation distribution between companies.  Thanks for your help SW! 

APC Reporter 1.20.4 (April 16, 2021)

• Batch Mode Additions: Now you can pull Dispatch and LMP Reports for specified hubs and units.  See the updated Help File (Introduction/Batch Mode) for more details. ​

APC Reporter 1.20.3 (April 12, 2021)

• Now you can create a CSV with 8760 hourly dispatch for all your units!  See the training video. ​
• Bug Fix: Emissions Tab reporting for all units.  We caught it ourselves, so no fix time here. 
• Removed references to the now-dead FTR Tab on the Options Page. 

APC Reporter 1.20.2 (April 8, 2021)

• Removed the FTR Tab.  You should be using PAT Trader instead.  

APC Reporter 1.20.1 (March 9, 2021)

• Security Improvements

APC Reporter 1.20.0 (March 5, 2021)

• New Emissions Tab!  Now you can see hourly emissions by emission type for your selected thermal units, or dump all 8760 for all units into a CSV.  

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APC Reporter 1.19.2 (February 26, 2021)

• ​Bug Fix: TRN reads properly when reading in two cases.  Issue resolved in 28 minutes. 

APC Reporter 1.19.1 (February 18, 2021)

• Bug Fix: Now the PJM method works even if you don't have a ACT or LOL files.  LOL.  Issue resolved in 2 days. We missed the email... give us a break.

APC Reporter 1.19.0 (February 16, 2021)

• We replaced the FTP!  Now you can use the new Upload Button to share files with us. Check out the Training Video.

APC Reporter 1.18.4 (January 28, 2021)

• Bus mapping for multiple TBUS records: If a unit is mapped to 2 buses (60% at one, 40% at another), the LMP reported will be from the majority bus, not the first bus record. 
• Capacity Factor was improperly using MAXCAP (reported zero when unit on outage)

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APC Reporter 1.18.3 (January 25, 2021)

• Run time speed and Security Improvements.

APC Reporter 1.18.2 (January 22, 2021)

• Added totals row to PJM results, log message for missing command file, warning for missing PJM ARR file

APC Reporter 1.18.1 (January 21, 2021)

• Bug Fix: Renewable Summary's weighted congestion and loss columns were displaying the same value for all basis hubs.  Issue fixed in 5 hours.

APC Reporter 1.18.0 (January 21, 2021)

• Batch Mode Added! Check out the new  training video.
• Release Notes Added: Now you can click a link in the In-App update that will bring you to this page. 
• Bug Fix: Point to Point thermal weights were not accumulating correctly.  

APC Reporter 1.17.3 (January 6, 2021)

• Tiny bug fix: Renewable Summary label changes (MWhr to MWh) caused crash in certain circumstance.  Fixed issue in 48 minutes. 

APC Reporter 1.17.2 (January 5, 2021)

• PJM Method:  Now you can keep a single ARR file in the EXE folder instead of putting it in each PFF folder you want to use it in.  Reporter will look first in the PFF folder, second in the EXE folder. 

APC Reporter 1.17.1 (January 4, 2021)

• Changed how the unit filter works on the Options Page:  Only filters by long unit name.  Use the unit type dropdown added in 1.17.0 to filter by unit type. 

APC Reporter 1.17.0 (December 23, 2020)

• PJM APC calculation method updated to changes PJM made on 12/21/2020!  
• Gen Weighted LMP on the LMP Point-to-Point tab! 
• New row on the Renewable Summary tab: Gen Weighted LMP when SALE HUB < 0$/MWh
• Select units by category on the Options tab. 

APC Reporter 1.16.1 (December 21, 2020)

• Unit Hourly Graph: When you switch from a unit with TRN/UNT data to a unit without data, the graph wouldn't update. Now it goes blank.
• LMP P2P, Units with no Data:  Even if a unit is tracked, it may not have data in the UNT and TRN files to support tracking.  When this happens, we allow the name to appear in dropdown displays, but we now append "(No Data)" to the unit name string. 
• Renewable Summary Dropdown Year: The month/year label was off by +1 year.  We fixed it.
• Unit Hourly: Add a button that saves Excel results in a slightly different format.  Now its one tab per unit, all metrics for that unit on the tab vs. one tab per metric, all the units' values on that tab. 
• LMP P2P Components: Now there all the LMP components are displayed in the table.  

​APC Reporter 1.16.0 (December 16, 2020)

• In-app update added!​

Under-the-hood Security Improvements