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Enhancing Energy Market Operations with PI Process Book

Learn how Xcel Energy utilizes PI Process Book and Datalink tools for efficient energy market operations, communication, and collaboration. Discover the benefits and solutions implemented by the team to improve data sharing, decision-making, and forecasting accuracy.

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Enhancing Energy Market Operations with PI Process Book

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  1. OSI Regional Seminar 2008 Presented by: Kasen Huwa Sr. System Analysts, Xcel Energy Use of PI Process Book and Datalink Client tools for Energy Market Operations

  2. About Us • Responsible for economic dispatch of the generating fleet, energy and gas trading, risk management, and settlement accounting functions • Operate in the MISO market, SPP market and the PSCO bilateral market • Services 8 states and 3.3 million electricity customers • Generating capacity of about 16,000 MW • Peak obligation load of about 20,000 MW • No. 1 wind provider in the nation about 2,700 MW

  3. Architecture of PI System Current Implementation and Future Plans

  4. EMS EMS EMS Internet PI Commercial Ops RDBMS HTML Custom VBA Operations/Trade Decision Support Application (RDB) SPS PSCO NSP PI to PI PI HA Collective PI HA Collective PI OPC over ICCP OPC over ICCP OPC over ICCP OPC over ICCP

  5. EMS EMS EMS Internet Commercial Ops PI HA Collective 3rd Party Data RDBMS HTML Custom VBA PI Operations/Trade Decision Support Application (RDB) DMZ SPS PSCO NSP PI to PI PI HA Collective PI HA Collective PI HA Collective OPC over ICCP OPC over ICCP OPC over ICCP OPC over ICCP

  6. Executive Process Book Displays Information at the Finger Tips of CEOs, Presidents, VPs, Directors and Managers

  7. Energy Markets Operations Day Ahead Traders, Real Time Traders, Real Time Operators, and Post Analysis

  8. Shared Display Collaboration and Communication using PI tools

  9. Gas Nominations and Burn • 5 different groups need access to the same information with different variables • Spreadsheets were emailed, data was copied and pasted, some manual input, phone calls occurred when unclear • Groups had a disconnect. They saw the same data in different ways so even phone calls were confusing

  10. Solution and Benefits • Use PI Datalink with VBA code to put the data in PI and then extract it into other spreadsheets • Saved over 5 hours a week of manual entry and copy/paste • Decreased errors and provided information quicker • Reduced email and phone traffic • Allowed groups to understand the same data with different variables

  11. Can be viewed at http://greenenergy.xcelenergy.com Sharing data on the web

  12. Post Analysis Using Datalink and Process Book

  13. Forecast - High Winds

  14. Scenarios - The Push - 12/24

  15. Scenarios - The Drop Off - 2/7

  16. Scenarios - A Dodge with a Push - 3/1

  17. Benefits Using PI • Executive communication of KPIs • Multi-team collaboration • Contest ISO penalties • Make real-time decisions • Post analysis • Significant wind forecast improvement • Easy to update ongoing analysis • Users can pull their own data

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