Schedule Changes

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Schedule Changes

• Citgo moved to Wednesday at 1000 in Salon 10
  replacing Saudi Aramco presentation
• Cascade moved on Wednesday from 800am to 845am
  in Salon 3 4
• Don Smith John Matranga replace Polimeri
  presentation on Wednesday at 845 in Salon 10
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Reliant Resources Generation Information
Environment (GIE) Using ActiveView
Presented By
Billy Crosby Angelina Tran
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Presentation Summary

• Reliant Resources Company Overview
• Business Drivers
• System Scope
• Leveraging User Community
• Generation Information Environment (GIE)
• Demo
• Questions and Answers

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Reliant Resources Company Information

• Reliant Resources, Inc., based in Houston, Texas,
  provides electricity and energy services to
  retail and wholesale customers in the U.S.,
  marketing those services under the Reliant Energy
  brand name.  The company provides a complete
  suite of energy products and services to more
  than 1.8 million electricity customers in Texas,
  ranging from residences and small businesses to
  large commercial, industrial and institutional
  customers.  Reliant also serves large commercial
  and industrial clients in the PJM (Pennsylvania,
  New Jersey, Maryland) Interconnection.  The
  company has approximately 20,000 megawatts of
  power generation capacity in operation, under
  construction or under contract in the U.S.
• For more information, visit our web site at
  http//www.reliantresources.com

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Business Drivers

• Provide Fleet wide Plant Monitoring
  Capabilities
• Leverage Staff Expertise, by Providing Remote
  Monitoring Diagnostics for Subject Matter
  Experts (SMEs)
• Support the Predictive Maintenance Process
• Provide Stations with Data and Analytical Tools
  to Support Operations
• Provide Standard Database for Fleet Metrics
• Generation Data
• Fuel Usage - Gas Meter and Fuel Burn Data
• Emissions Data
• Unit Status and Control System States
• Align with Power Generations Goal to be the Low
  Cost Power Producer

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System Scope

• Utilize an IT approach to Implementation and
  Systems
• Management
• 46 Plants
• 32 Plant PI Servers
• 5 Central PI Servers
• 90 API Nodes
• 199 Interfaces

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System Scope

• Common Plant Historian (CPH) Team has developed
  and
• supports
• Process Screens (680)
• Reports and Spreadsheets
• Performance Equations and ACE Calculations
• Performance Modeling
• Provide Training to user community on GIE and OSI
  Tools

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GIE CPH Architecture
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GIE CPH Architecture
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Leveraging User Community

• Site Champions identified for each plant and
  Central Support Services.
• Key individuals are responsible for maintaining a
  Master ProcessBook for their site.
• Accountable for keeping sites local copy
• Communicate change mgmt to PI Team
• Subject Matter Experts / Specialist
• Direction and Priorities are set by
• Power Operations Management
• Plant Peer Groups (Coal, Combined Cycle, Cyclic,
  Peaking)

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Leveraging User Community

• CPH Team works with our clients to gather and
  receive requirements.
• Gather requirements through Site Champions and
  SMEs
• Phone, Web Forms, Email, Internal User Group
  Meetings
• CPH Team designs, develops, and tests
  applications
• Co-development of applications with the clients
• Leverage existing work to minimize redundant
  development
• Migrate into Production/GIE Environment
• Proactive communication with client
• Relationship development

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GIE ActiveView - Cheswick SO2
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GIE ActiveView Coolwater Unit Overview
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GIE ActiveView - Ceredo Gen TU Exhaust
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GIE ActiveView - Brunot Island Condensate
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GIE Technical References SMT Tag List
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GIE Objectives

• To share PI and technical information throughout
  the Corporation
• Process Screens
• Excel Reports
• Word Documents
• etc
• Enable the CPH Support Team to easily maintain
  the menu structure and content of the Reliant
  Resources GIE.
• Provide a method of submitting requests and
  contacting the CPH Team
• Provide answers to FAQs and share PI usage best
  practices
• Give CPH Team a secure location for sharing files
  and conducting administrative tasks.

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GIE Structure

• ActiveView
• This is the Meat and Potatoes section of the
  GIE
• Dynamically Generated Hierarchical Menu
• Houses Process Screens and various Plant
  Information Reports
• Technical References
• Dynamically Generated Hierarchical Menu
• Houses Technical Documents, SMT Tag Dumps, etc
• System Support
• Password protected area for CPH Team to share
  files and carry out administrative tasks
• Service Requests
• Allows users to submit requests via web forms
• Contact Us FAQs

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GIE ActiveView - Performance Modeling
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GIE ActiveView - Automated Reporting
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GIE Technical References
This is where you will find helpful technical
information relating to PI and the plants. This
information can range from Configuring your
browser to access Active View to specific plant
hardware diagrams or SMT Tag Lists.
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GIE Service Request - Web Forms

• Changes
• Inquiries
• Issues
• Tag Requests
• Screen
• Development

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GIE Technical Overview

• The Dynamic Menus are generated based on the
  structure of the Web Servers directories and the
  files contained within them. This is done via a
  two step process.
• Step 1
• An ASP page will be run that reads the
  Folder/File structure of the server using the
  FileSystemObject (FSO) Object. This ASP page
  creates HTML strings based on that structure,
  which it then stores in the servers cache via
  Application Variables.
• Step 2
• The menu will be created dynamically on the front
  end by another ASP page reading the HTML strings
  from the Application Variables in the servers
  cache.
• The menu is hierarchal based on the Folder
  Structure of the server.

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GIE Technical Overview (cont.)
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GIE Technical Overview (cont.)

• Dynamically Displaying PDI files created with
  ProcessBook
• Our key to dynamically displaying PDI files is an
  ASP page that acts as a container for the
  ActiveView ActiveX object.
• This ASP page facilitates the following functions
  for the ActiveX object
• Checks the version of ActiveView the user has
  installed versus the version installed on the
  server. It will automatically update if needed.
• Updates the known servers list on the clients
  machine
• Informs the object of which file it needs to
  display

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GIE PI ActiveView System Requirements

• Minimum Requirements for Web Server
• Windows NT server 4.0, SP3 or greater
• Microsoft Internet Services Personal Web Server
  Version 4.0 (PWS) or Microsoft Internet
  Information Server 4.0 (IIS) or 5.0
• Minimum Software Requirements for Users
• Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 SP3 or
  later, or Windows 2000
• 16 MB RAM (at least 32 MB RAM is recommended)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape 3.0
• 32 MB of hard disk space
• A Netscape browser may be used if you are not
  planning to download installation files from the
  Web site. The Netscape browser must also contain
  a plug-in enabling the use of ActiveX controls.
• Requirements obtained from http//www.osisoft.com

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Demonstration
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GIE Demo
Web Server
GIE Menu
Root level menu Corresponds to Directory
Structure of Web Server
File that resides in the ActiveView Folder
Clicking on the West menu item will display the
folders under the West, just like in Windows
Explorer
Files that resides in the West Folder
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GIE Demo
Clicking on a file from the menu on the left will
cause that file to open in the right hand side of
the screen. Information about the PDI files is
passed to the Container ASP page.
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GIE Demo
Scrolling menu When necessary
ActiveX Component allows for scalable process
screens.
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Questions and Answers
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Schedule Changes

• Citgo moved to Wednesday at 1000 in Salon 10
  replacing Saudi Aramco presentation
• Cascade moved on Wednesday from 800am to 845am
  in Salon 3 4
• Don Smith John Matranga replace Polimeri
  presentation on Wednesday at 845 in Salon 10
• Sign up for Feedback Forums at Registration