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

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 TradingLoad 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

48.0%28.0% 0.1%

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2.0%

Combined CyclesCTSteamWindSolar

Generation Optimization

Accounting:

•Metered MWH Delivered•DA & RT LMPs•Energy Gross Revenue•Actual costs•Profit or loss

Planning & Scheduling

Emissions Adders

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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 PIConectiv PI

Plants-Real-time Generation/Fuel Data

Genscape PJM eMarket-Gen and Ancillary Services Market DataBid Prices, Costs, DA Loads, Over-rides, Spinning Data etc.

OperatorsDispatch, 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 DB PI-Archives

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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.

Thank You!