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Empowering Business in Real Time. © Copyright 2009, OSIsoft Inc. All rights Reserved.

High Value Infrastructure, Technology

for an Ever-Changing Corporate Culture

Regional Seminar Series

Steve Noel, Director of Information Technology, Constellation Power

Michael Saucier, CEO, TransparaSeptember 2, 2009

2 Empowering Business in Real Time. © Copyright 2009, OSIsoft Inc. All rights Reserved.

Agenda

• About Constellation Energy

• OSIsoft – Key Partner for our

Technology-Enabled Workforce

• Corporate Agreement Value

• Transpara’s Strategic Position

• Questions


Constellation Energy Group

• A leading supplier of energy products and services to

wholesale and retail electric and natural gas

customers.

• A major electric generator with US capacity of more

than 9,100 megawatts.

• A leader in the development of new US nuclear plants.

• A regulated distributor of electricity and natural gas in

Central Maryland through our utility, BG&E Company.

• A Fortune 500 energy company, headquartered in

Baltimore, Md., with revenues of $19.8 billion in 2008


Constellation Energy


Accomplishments –

• Revenues on Generation: Up 32% over the same period

last year.

• Growth: Bought and Built 1025 MW of Capacity within

the last 12 months.– Including construction of a 85 MW site in Alberta, Canada between April

and November of 2008.

• Environmental: $900 MM AQCS Investment at Brandon

Shores.– Will make Brandon Shores one of the cleanest coal burners in North

America (67%, 80%, and 70% reductions in NOX, SO2, and Mercury

emissions respectively).

• Reliability: Reduced the number of Outages due to

Boiler incidents from 40 to 11 in the last 12 months.


Where Do We Use PI?

• Plant Sites– Key Business and Technology

element in Daily Operation

• Performance Center (PM&D)

– Analyzing PI data with

– Total Catches = 83

• Sensor Related Catches = 47

• Equipment Related Catches = 36

• Environmental Unit– Maryland Dept. Env. Filings

• Trading Floor

– Asset Ops reviews plant/unit

status for dispatch.


How Do We Use PI?

• Generation Overview (Exec mgmt)

– Units Online & Status

– CTs on/off availability

– PJM Lambda tracking

• Operations

– Predictive Maintenance Engineering

– Controllable Losses

– Vibration Analysis, Emissions Tracking

• PI Server, DB and Inter-site Connection Status

– Server perfmance, PI-to-PI status

– PI DB backup aging and tracking

• SmartSignal alerts on PDAs – Blackberry/Windows Mobile


Constellation PI Network


Generation Overview / Exec Mgmt

Unit Running / Status CTs AvailabilityGeneration Totals


PJM Lambda Monitoring

• Execs want us all to know when the Lambda is

high, we better be online and making power!


Predictive Maintenance


Controllable Losses

• PI Helps us monitor:

– Main Steam Pressure

– Main Steam Temperature

– Reheat Steam Temperature

– Carbon Content of Fly Ash

– And many others

• Visual KPI gives us

“manage by exception”

– Alerts & Drill-down ensure

all stakeholders engaged


Datalink Daily Reports are Key


Emissions & Vibration Monitoring

• Early warning allows

key stakeholders to

respond before

problems become

critical.

• Remote monitoring

capability by SME’s

(subject matter

experts – like

vibration analysts)

increases plant

availability.

Emissions Tracking Vibration Analysis


Unit Operation Detail Displays


PI Server Health Monitoring

• We track PI critical health and monitor and

diagnose issues remotely on PDAs.


PI Server Database Aging

• ACE + Visual KPI help IT keep ensure database

backups are current


SmartSignal alerts on BlackBerry

• OSIsoft’s partnership with

SmartSignal improves our ability

to catch equipment events:– Total Catches = 83

• Sensor Related Catches = 47

• Equipment Related Catches = 36

• SmartSignal’s partnership with

Transpara to deliver Watchlist

data to Blackberries extends the

value of our investment

• Stakeholders remain in the loop

without adding burden to

operations/PM&D staff


The Future at Constellation

• Coal Yard Management

• Demand Response

• Data Center Power Management

• Platform Integration: SharePoint / RtWebParts

• More SmartSignal Integration

• Further Transpara deployment

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