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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?. Power Trading. Generation Management. Load Management.
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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? Power Trading Generation Management Load Management Operate a cross commodity trading floor with emphasis on: • Power • Natural Gas • Coal • Oil • Emissions • Renewables Own and operate 3700 MW of generation in five mid-Atlantic states Manage approximately 2000 MWs of load in PJM and ISO-NE Manage an additional 500+ MW of tolled generation 650 MW of additional generation under construction Asset-backed wholesale energy business headquarterd in Newark DE.
Generation Optimization Fuel Cost & Availability Emissions Adders • Accounting: • Metered MWH Delivered • DA & RT LMPs • Energy Gross Revenue • Actual costs • Profit or loss Planning & Scheduling Power Market Prices t t 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
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 PJM eData-LMP’s 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
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 PJM XMLSOAP PI-Module DB PI-Archives Client Applications PISDK Calls Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Oracle
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.
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.