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1 June 19 Huntsville, Alabama Copyr i ght O SIs oft, LLC. 1

2 Managing Large Scale Solar Assets Presented by Dawson Newberry CIO ConEdison Energy/Development

3 Who is ConEdison In 1824 New York Gas Light was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and it holds the record for being the longest listed stock on the NYSE. In the early years of the 20th century the firm expanded into electricity, and in 1936 was renamed the Consolidated Edison Company of New York. On the regulated side of the business ConEdison servers more than 3 million customers in NYC and Westchester county. 3

4 Who is ConEdison ConEdison operates the largest steam system in the world. In 1996 under deregulation ConEdison agreed to divest most of it s traditional generation and focus it s efforts on being a regulated transmission and distribution company for power, natural gas and steam. ConEdison was allowed to form and operate unregulated subsidiaries that compete in the open market. 4

5 Who is ConEdison There are 3 completive energy business: ConEdison Solutions (CES) focus is the retail business. They offer energy and energy related services to a wide customer base through out the United States. ConEdison Energy (CEE) is a wholesale Energy trading company. CEE also represents Generation owners in the various ISO markets, as well as offering fuel management services. ConEdison Development (CED) builds, owns and operates Generation through out the United States. Currently this is all Large Scale Solar. 5

6 ConEdison Development From 1997 through 2008 CED bought, built and operated traditional fossil fuel generation in the Northeast. All of these assets were monitored using PI. In 2008 all of these assets were sold and CED was put on hold. Movement into Large Scale Solar. In January of 2010 CED had 0 MWs of solar generating capacity. Today CED has 660 MWs of capacity at 20 sites through out the United States. 6

7 Business Challenges in 2010 Asset management: What do we need to know and when do we need to know it? How do we collect the data? How do we insure that we meet all of the contractual and regulatory obligations? How do we make our solutions scale so that we can add assets without adding people and overhead? 7

8 Pilot Project Goals Search for vendor solutions: Collect SCADA data in real time. Alerts to notify users of events requiring attention. Maintain the SCADA data for both short term and historical analysis. End user tool set to extract and manipulate the data. Reports and online views for Asset Managers. Automated workflow to track problem resolution. 8

9 Pilot Project Goals No one vendor provided everything. Vendors were focused on the site management in the short term. Vendors did not have an understanding of the regulatory requirements from the various governmental agencies. Work flow was absent from every vendor offering. 9

10 Pilot Projects Murray Hill NJ Small 1 MW site covering 6 acres with 3,700 panels. Commissioned second quarter of Produces about 1,800 MWHs per year. Initial asset management done through vendor turnkey system with limited success. Managers had to actively check for problems Only 15 minute summary data was available 10

11 Pilot Projects Murray Hill NJ cont. Limited ability to do data analysis. No work flow Users were unable to easily create/change views of the data. CED decided to augment the vendor solution with the PI System to fill gaps in functionality and ensure the long term integrity of data. 11

12 Pilot Project Pilesgrove NJ Medium sized 20 MW site covering 100 acres with 71,700 panels. Commissioned third quarter of Produces about 25,600 MWHs per year. Asset management system provided by Draker generally successful. Managers received notification of problems 15 minute summary data was available along with critical 5 second data points, done using the PI System. 12

13 Pilot Project Pilesgrove NJ cont. Better data analysis tools. No work flow Users were able to create/change views of the data and export data on demand. Again CED decided to augment the vendor solution with the PI System to fill gaps in functionality and ensure the long term integrity of data. 13

14 Root Cause of Vendor Problems CED realized that the vendor systems both suffered from: Inadequate data repository Poor tool set for working with the data Limited vendor support staff and resources 14

15 The Move Forward (2012) CED would extend the development of it s in house data repository (The PI System). CED using PI System tools would replace vendor systems for the reporting of real time alerts. CED would develop views and reports to replace all vendor applications using the PI tool set. 15

16 Why The PI System for the Platform The PI System is a well established scalable architecture that allows for any type of time series data from real-time to extended, including event driven sequences. Rich Tool Set: OSIsoft offers many different products and tools to address all aspects of software development. 16

17 Why the PI System for the Platform OSIsoft has the support staff and resources that you need to assist in both development and support roles OSIsoft has wide array of partners (several hundred) who provide solutions by integrating PI with their products. 17

18 The PI System and PowerFactors Enterprise Asset Management System (EAMS) Integration with CED s PI system on a realtime basis Uses Salesforce as a back end repository From the user perspective it is one system. 18

19 What the Integration Means Provides a record of plant equipment and key operating parameters. Provides a list of plant equipment and how it is physically connected and named. Gives a unique identifier for generating automated work orders from PI (Work Flow) Creates an asset listing and structure for calculating equipment reliability metrics. 19

20 Business Challenges in 2014 Asset management: How do we collect the data? All data is collected in the PI System and Salesforce. It is tightly integrated allowing the Asset Manager one view to manage all of his projects. How do we insure that we meet all of the contractual and regulatory obligations? Using Work flow management of Salesforce with data and alerts from the PI System. How do we make our solutions scale so that we can add assets without adding people and overhead? 20

21 Business Challenges in 2014 cont. Asset management: How do we make our solutions scale so that we can add assets without adding people and overhead? The combination of the PI system and Salesforce allows CED to add a new site into the system in the matter of a days. 21

22 Dawson Newberry CIO ConEdison Energy/Development 22

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