What is this standard about?
A common basis of understanding results from defined metrics that can be useful to the stakeholders, populated by data collected in the operation of the PVPS:
a) To provide a standarized approach to characterize availablity and unavailablity for a PVPS.
b) To provide standard methodologies for determining the appropriate forms of availability of the PVPS during varying time periods, including real-time capability assessment or longer, for reporting availablity metrics to stakeholders.
This document provides a framework from which the availability metrics of a PVPS can be derived and reported. It describes how data are categorized and defines generic information categories to which time can be assigned for a PVPS considering internal and external conditions based on fraction of time, system health, and condition by specifying the following:
• generic information categories of a PVPS considering availability and production.
• information category priority to discriminate between concurrent categories.
• entry and exit point for each information category to allocate designation of time.