PI-The Backbone of Conectiv Energy’s Generation Asset Management. Amit Mahajan And Paul Wassil

PHI Corporate Structure Regulated T&D Businesses Unregulated Energy Businesses

Who is Conectiv Energy? Asset-backed wholesale energy business headquarterd in Newark DE. Generation Management Power Trading Load Management Own and operate 3700 MW of generation in five mid-Atlantic states Manage an additional 500+ MW of tolled generation 650 MW of additional generation under construction Manage approximately 2000 MWs of load in PJM and ISO-NE Operate a cross commodity trading floor with emphasis on: Power Natural Gas Coal Oil Emissions Renewables

Conectiv’s Generation Mix

Generation Optimization Accounting: Metered MWH Delivered DA & RT LMPs Energy Gross Revenue Actual costs Profit or loss Planning & Scheduling Emissions Adders tt Fuel Cost & Availability Power Market Prices Transmission Congestion Real-Time Operation: Plant Performance Fuel Flow & Inventory Economic Dispatch

How is PI Used in Asset Optimization? Marketing, Scheduling, and Dispatch Generation cost and prices Unit status Log Economic dispatch Energy and Ancillary Market interface Fuel & Emissions Management Real-Time Natural Gas flow & balances Liquid fuel inventories Real-Time Emissions monitoring Emission Permit balances Plant Performance Monitoring On-dispatch Heat Rate

Unit Status Log

PJM Ancillary e-Market Interface

Liquid Fuel Inventory

Natural Gas Usage

Plant Performance – On-Dispatch

How does PI meet our business needs?  User Friendliness- PI Client tools and other apps.  Flexibility- Adapts well to changes in our portfolio.  Compatibility- Interfaces well with other Conectiv applications.  Reliability- 24/7 operation

PI-Not just a Data Historian Data Historian and much more. Platform against which we do in-house application development. Stores not just plant data, but market data too. Daily, Weekly and Monthly report generator for things as varied as environmental data reports to P&L reports to dispatch reports.

Conectiv PI Data Sources Conectiv PI Plants -Real-time Generation/Fuel Data Genscape PJM eMarket -Gen and Ancillary Services Market Data Bid Prices, Costs, DA Loads, Over-rides, Spinning Data etc. Operators Dispatch, Schedule, Unit Outage data using various in-house applications PJM eData -LMP’s

Conectiv’s PI based applications Various applications and reports to manage power generation assets. Use PISDK and VB/C#.NET. These applications render business functionality customized to the needs of Conectiv Energy. PI-Module Database forms the data and schema backbone of these applications. Two-way Interface with PI and Oracle data. Real-time two –way interfaces with PJM eSuite applications using XML SOAP calls. Very easily extensible- thanks to the Module DB and PISDK.

General Architecture Client Applications PI-Module DBPI-Archives Microsoft Visual Studio.NET PISDK Calls PJM Oracle XML SOAP

Generation Asset Manager

Dispatch Entry Dialog

Power Spinner

Bid Tracker

Bid Results from Bid Tracker

Schedule Details From Bid Tracker

Unit Performance Reports

PISDK Architecture for Gen Apps One PI Module for the Generation portfolio A sub-module of the Portfolio Module corresponds to a Generation Unit. A Unit Module corresponds to a Unit class. Various Unit Parameters form the aliases/properties of the unit module and are accessed that way from the code. Very easy to add/delete units from the portfolio.

Example MDB Settings-Portfolio

Example MDB Settings-Unit

Typical Settings For a Data Job

MDB Settings for On-Dispatch Targets

PI-Future at Conectiv Have recently installed a new Generation Management System and PI is the data historian for it. HA-PI system that has interfaces with our corporate PI system. Plan to convert every PI historian to an HA system Looking to leverage some of the web-based technologies at offer.

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