1. 1 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Cockpit ”The Decision Maker’s Tool for Optimum Power Generation Performance and Reliability “ Presentation by: SIEMENS NewEnergy Associates Rob Homer - Lead Systems Engineer John E. Egan - Executive Project Manager

2. 2 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Presentation part 1 Siemens Cockpit Technology (what is Cockpit?) Cockpit Installations worldwide Cockpit Overview (logical model) Functional objectives for Cockpit

3. 3 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Siemens Facts In fiscal 2005, Siemens world wide had more than $90 billion in sales Siemens has been an established business since 1847 (>150 years) Siemens employs over 400,000 people world wide in more than 190 countries. Siemens consists of six primary business areas Information and Communications Automation and Control Power (the focus of today’s presentation) Transportation Medical Lighting Siemens ‘Power Generation’ systems are responsible for the production of more than one-third of this nation’s electricity. In more than 100 countries worldwide, Siemens Power Generation has an installed fleet of nearly 600,000 megawatts at more than 3,500 customer sites.

4. 4 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Cockpit Technology Cockpit is a Siemens Power Industry enterprise integration solution utilizing OSIsoft RtPM This solution has been implemented to meet the multi-disciplined needs of Power industry business users Asset visibility, management and optimization are the focus objectives of the resulting implementations

5. 5 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. SIEMENS projects Beijing Guohua Electric Power Co. A U.S. Southwestern Utility BEWAG (Vattenfall Europe) BEWAG (Berlin) Stadtwerke München Huntstown Power Corporation Examples of Cockpit Worldwide installations

6. 6 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Cockpit Logical Model Enterprise Business Users Engineering Finance Cockpit Integrated Solutions Maintenance Operations Marketing Remote Data Access & Collaboration Fleet Units and subsystems

7. 7 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Presentation part 2 “Experience is the best teacher” 3rd party solutions interface ability Integration of front end applications Event handling functionality Enterprise entity modeling User views via RtGraphic Technical Lessons Learned

8. 8 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Effective project leadership & direct on-site customer presence Unified customer/vendor project team OSIsoft PI integration with multiple 3 rd party systems solutions Superior information management and presentation using OSIsoft RtWebParts & OSIsoft PI API Technology delivery focus on: customer satisfaction, on-time delivery, completed scope, and within budget Cockpit Implementation Project Highlights

9. 9 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Some areas for technology improvement Rigid alarm sub-system Excessive overhead for alarm sub-system OSIsoft AlarmView scalability and performance Sharepoint installation and configuration Sharepoint tree control Cumbersome Sharepoint admin interface Project Challenges

10. 10 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Cockpit Architecture

11. 11 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Integration of Existing Technology Cockpit Integrated Solutions Systems Performance Visibility Platform Flexibility OPC, ODBC, TXT, SQL, ASP, HTML, XML, Etc… NewEnergy Associates Energy Trading Tools Integration of Existing Software Assets Siemens Fact: Nearly 95 percent of all North American burner and boiler manufacturers use Siemens combustion controls as factory installed equipment.

12. 12 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. ASP Alarm ViewActive View Cockpit Integrated Solutions RtAlertsRtGraphics Crystal Reports Multiple Applications Visibility & Operability COM Modules Integration of Front End Apps including RtPM modules

13. 13 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Cockpit Four State Event Handling Workflow The event is evaluated Start A monitored event occurs in the fleet Cockpit annunciates the event alert The incident is examined The event is acknowledged 1 2 3 4 Cockpit user is alerted to the fleet situation indicating that A key variable or process is not within tolerances An appropriate resource verifies that the occurrence is a valid alert A subject matter expert selects the appropriate follow-up action to be taken The event is acknowledged, logged & corrective action is scheduled or initiated Cockpit enables collaborative view ability

14. 14 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Cockpit Alarm Hierarchy Siemens Fact: Three out of every four cars on the road in the United States rely on Sylvania lighting technologies. Using PI SMT Cockpit builds a detailed alarm hierarchy based on the object model shown earlier. Pi Alarm Points Pi Alarm Groups

15. 15 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. OSIsoft AlarmView Original version of AlarmView that was used as the workflow application. Alarm Grouping Structure allows for alarm list filtering Current alarms and their associated priority level The user can acknowledge alarms Alarm Grouping Structure allows for alarm list filtering

16. 16 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Updated version of AlarmView with a much improved UI. OSIsoft AlarmView Comments can be entered and if a comment exists this icon changes. Comment properties are shown for the selected alarm. This shows the source value the limits and dead band for easy confirmation of event.

17. 17 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. The structure for the enterprise is delivered as a template The model is embedded in the MDB basic structure Modular segments can be copied, completed and parameterized while project engineering continues Fleet Entity Modeling and Cockpit Object Sstructure Siemens Fact: Radiation therapy systems from Siemens treat more than 30,000 cancer patients every business day in the United States.

18. 18 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Siemens Cockpit using RtGraphic Multi-state Symbols used for Operator Guidance Alarm Counters based on Custom Siemens Calculations using PI-Ace Siemens Fact: Siemens has negotiated more than $3 billion in energy supply contracts on behalf of its customers and has guaranteed $1.5 billion in energy savings since 1965.

19. 19 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Siemens Cockpit using RtGraphic Cockpit Allows for drill-down to all major components using the Sharepoint Tree Each of the major components shows an operator guidance point that is color coded using Cockpit’s alarm handling functions All Alarm points can be selected to drill down to the appropriate application for more detail Alarm Points are shown in red using PI’s multi-state object Siemens Custom ASP and Custom PI-ACE calculations allows operators to process alarms

20. 20 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Selecting on an alarm item allows the user to drill into the appropriate analytical tool. Vibration Monitoring drill-down

21. 21 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Siemens Cockpit using ActiveView Siemens Cockpit using PI ActiveView allows the user to fully interact with this module A Cockpit User can click on any point on the line to show the values in that point in time A Cockpit User can move the slider bar to move through time.

22. 22 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Siemens Cockpit using PI API’s Using the Siemens custom interfaces, PI API’s and Crystal Reports, Cockpit users can generate boardroom quality reports. Siemens Fact: Every third phone call worldwide is processed with Siemens technology.

23. 23 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Siemens Cockpit using the Portal Framework Using the portal framework any NewEnergy and Siemens applications can be integrated easily. Forecasted LMP’s generated from NewEnergy’s Promod Powerbase and Map agent

24. 24 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Siemens T3000 Integrated in Cockpit allows for Plant Automation Siemens Cockpit using the Portal Framework Siemens Fact: In 1928, Siemens invented the Protos turbo washing machine, a drum-type machine which could both wash and spin-dry its load.

25. 25 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Thermodynamic calculation Turbine Characteristics Extractions Description of water & steam process Boiler Characteristics Condenser Characteristics Thermodynamic model: Calculation based on detailed technical data of the plant, Production cost calculation Number of pre-heaters Number of pumps Fleet Generation Management Module using the Portal Framework Production Cost Forecasting with Thermodynamic Model

26. 26 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Technical Lessons Learned In order to get RtWebParts to install properly do it twice. To prevent excessive “clicking” use davcopy.exe to batch uploads to Sharepoint Portal. If you have a choice between using ActiveView or RtGraphic, use RtGraphic. You need a web expert to create custom SharePoint templates.

27. 27 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Cockpit‘s Focus - Real-time Fleet Asset Optimization Cockpit Integrated Solutions Load Capability Forecast Demand Forecast Performance Weather Forecasts Unit Commitment Contract Data Fleet Units Fleet Units Fleet Units Fleet Units  Real-time Performance Gap Analysis Best Practice in fleet comparison Best Practice in industry comparison Financial opportunity of optimization Cost of uninstructed ISO market deviation  Centralized Alarm Handling Workflow & Corrective Action Processing Trading, Engineering & maintenance collaboration enabled  Enhanced Reliability/Derate Forecasts Improved outage management Improved generation management Improved trading positions

28. 28 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Predicted: Generation Costs Unit Capacity Energy market conditions Making operational & economic decisions today based on current and predicted operations costs, fleet wide unit performance, and energy market conditions Fleet Asset Maneuverability Decision Making Real time operation status Performance Gap Analysis Integrated Solutions Optimal asset functionality ?≠?≠ Current Energy Market Demand Fleet Generation Capacity ?≠?≠ Key Operational Performance Indicators Dynamic fleet Modeling data Real time Trading data Up to the minute fleet capacity conditions Valuation engine Cost data GAP

29. 29 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Expertise and solutions for financial officers, managers, & planners : Market & Asset Analysis Including Advisory Consulting Services Financial Planning Front to back office solutions for energy traders & asset managers : Energy Trading & Risk Management Real-time fleet asset optimization and gap evaluation Power IT Strategic & operations management solutions : Gas Strategy & Planning Solutions for managing operations in competitive electric & gas markets : Energy Marketing & Operations Decision support for energy resource owners, managers, & investors: Siemens’ NewEnergy Products Siemens Fact: Every business day, Siemens Energy & Automation (SE&A) produces 180,000 electronic circuit breakers.

30. 30 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Siemens’ OEM partnership with OSIsoft Siemens utilizes OSIsoft best practices in conjunction with its implementation expertise for superior Cockpit solutions. OSIsoft provided Siemens direct connection to their developers for outstanding support. OSIsoft & Siemens have joined as Gold level partners to provide a world wide solution. Cockpit in conjunction with OSIsoft, provides Optimum Power Generation Performance and Reliability for the power industry.

31. 31 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. Q & A If you have any questions please share them with us now! We sincerely thank you for attending this Siemens Cockpit Presentation.

32. 32 Copyright SIEMENS corporation company confidential, all rights reserved. END Rob Homer NewEnergy Associates a Siemens Company 400 Interstate North Parkway Suite 1500 Atlanta, Ga 30339 770 779 2853 John Egan NewEnergy Associates a Siemens Company 400 Interstate North Parkway Suite 1500 Atlanta, Ga 30339 770 331 2568