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Reliant Resources’ Generation Information Environment (GIE) – Using ActiveView Presented By: Billy Crosby Angelina Tran

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView Presentation Summary Reliant Resources Company Overview Business Drivers System Scope Leveraging User Community Generation Information Environment (GIE) Demo Questions and Answers

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView Reliant Resources Company Information Reliant Resources, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, provides electricity and energy services to retail and wholesale customers in the U.S., marketing those services under the Reliant Energy brand name. The company provides a complete suite of energy products and services to more than 1.8 million electricity customers in Texas, ranging from residences and small businesses to large commercial, industrial and institutional customers. Reliant also serves large commercial and industrial clients in the PJM (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland) Interconnection. The company has approximately 20,000 megawatts of power generation capacity in operation, under construction or under contract in the U.S. For more information, visit our web site at

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView Business Drivers Provide “Fleet wide” Plant Monitoring Capabilities Leverage Staff Expertise, by Providing Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics for Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) Support the Predictive Maintenance Process Provide Stations with Data and Analytical Tools to Support Operations Provide Standard Database for Fleet Metrics: Generation Data Fuel Usage - Gas Meter and Fuel Burn Data Emissions Data Unit Status and Control System States Align with Power Generation’s Goal to be the Low Cost Power Producer

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView System Scope Utilize an IT approach to Implementation and Systems Management 46 Plants 32 Plant PI Servers 5 Central PI Servers 90 API Nodes 199 Interfaces

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView System Scope Common Plant Historian (CPH) Team has developed and supports: Process Screens (680+) Reports and Spreadsheets Performance Equations and ACE Calculations Performance Modeling Provide Training to user community on GIE and OSI Tools

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : CPH Architecture

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : CPH Architecture

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView Leveraging User Community Site Champions identified for each plant and Central Support Services. Key individuals are responsible for maintaining a “Master” ProcessBook for their site. Accountable for keeping site’s local copy Communicate change mgmt to PI Team Subject Matter Experts / Specialist Direction and Priorities are set by: Power Operations Management Plant Peer Groups (Coal, Combined Cycle, Cyclic, Peaking)

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView Leveraging User Community CPH Team works with our clients to gather and receive requirements. Gather requirements through Site Champions and SMEs Phone, Web Forms, , Internal User Group Meetings CPH Team designs, develops, and tests applications Co-development of applications with the clients Leverage existing work to minimize redundant development Migrate into Production/GIE Environment Proactive communication with client Relationship development

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : ActiveView - Cheswick SO2

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : ActiveView – Coolwater Unit Overview

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : ActiveView - Ceredo Gen & TU Exhaust

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : ActiveView - Brunot Island Condensate

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : Technical References – SMT Tag List

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : Objectives To share PI and technical information throughout the Corporation Process Screens Excel Reports Word Documents etc… Enable the CPH Support Team to easily maintain the menu structure and content of the Reliant Resources’ GIE. Provide a method of submitting requests and contacting the CPH Team Provide answers to FAQs and share PI usage best practices Give CPH Team a secure location for sharing files and conducting administrative tasks.

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : Structure ActiveView This is the “Meat and Potatoes” section of the GIE Dynamically Generated Hierarchical Menu Houses Process Screens and various Plant Information Reports Technical References Dynamically Generated Hierarchical Menu Houses Technical Documents, SMT Tag Dumps, etc… System Support Password protected area for CPH Team to share files and carry out administrative tasks Service Requests Allows users to submit requests via web forms Contact Us & FAQs

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : ActiveView - Performance Modeling

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : ActiveView - Automated Reporting

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : Technical References This is where you will find helpful technical information relating to PI and the plants. This information can range from “Configuring your browser to access Active View” to specific plant hardware diagrams or SMT Tag Lists.

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : Service Request - Web Forms Changes Inquiries Issues Tag Requests Screen Development

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : Technical Overview The Dynamic Menus are generated based on the structure of the Web Server’s directories and the files contained within them. This is done via a two step process. Step 1: An ASP page will be run that reads the Folder/File structure of the server using the FileSystemObject (FSO) Object. This ASP page creates HTML strings based on that structure, which it then stores in the server’s cache via Application Variables. Step 2: The menu will be created dynamically on the front end by another ASP page reading the HTML strings from the Application Variables in the server’s cache. The menu is hierarchal based on the Folder Structure of the server.

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : Technical Overview (cont.)

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : Technical Overview (cont.) Dynamically Displaying PDI files created with ProcessBook Our key to dynamically displaying PDI files is an ASP page that acts as a container for the ActiveView ActiveX object. This ASP page facilitates the following functions for the ActiveX object: Checks the version of ActiveView the user has installed versus the version installed on the server. It will automatically update if needed. Updates the known servers list on the clients machine Informs the object of which file it needs to display

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : PI ActiveView System Requirements Minimum Requirements for Web Server Windows NT server 4.0, SP3 or greater Microsoft Internet Services Personal Web Server Version 4.0 (PWS) or Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 (IIS) or 5.0 Minimum Software Requirements for Users Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 SP3 or later, or Windows MB RAM (at least 32 MB RAM is recommended) Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape 3.0* 32 MB of hard disk space * A Netscape browser may be used if you are not planning to download installation files from the Web site. The Netscape browser must also contain a plug-in enabling the use of ActiveX controls. Requirements obtained from

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView Demonstration

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : Demo Web ServerGIE Menu Root level menu Corresponds to Directory Structure of Web Server Clicking on the West menu item will display the folders under the West, just like in Windows Explorer File that resides in the ActiveView Folder Files that resides in the West Folder

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : Demo Clicking on a file from the menu on the left will cause that file to open in the right hand side of the screen. Information about the PDI files is passed to the Container ASP page.

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView GIE : Demo Scrolling menu When necessary ActiveX Component allows for scalable process screens.

Reliant Resources' Generation Information Environment (GIE) - Using ActiveView Questions and Answers

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