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Presented by

Efficient Asset Management of a

Large and Distributed DG Solar

Portfolio

Steve Hanawalt

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Agenda

• Power Factors Overview

• The Problem we are Trying to Solve

– High Volume

– High Velocity

– High Geographic Dispersion

– Low Cost

• The Solution

– IT

– Automation

– Event Management

• Applications and Use Case / How the PI System was Applied

• Challenges

• Conclusion

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Fossil and Solar Asset Classes – Volume

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T U R B I N E S B O I L E R S

FOSSIL - EQUIPMENT VOLUME 3

,000

30,0

00

300,0

00

5,0

00,0

00

I N V E R T E R S C O MB I N E R S S T R I N G S MO D U L E S

SOLAR - EQUIPMENT VOLUME

>5,000,000

EQUIPMENT

20

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3,2

85,0

00

21,9

00,0

00

219,0

00,0

00

I N V E R T E R S C O MB I N E R S S T R I N G S

SOLAR - EVENTS/YR

Fossil and Solar Asset Classes - Volume

>20,000,000/yr

4,3

80

3,1

80

-

T U R B I N E S B O I L E R S A U XI L I A R I E S

FOSSIL - EVENTS/YR

EVENTS

>7,500/yr

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5000

10

1

S O L A R G A S C O A L

PROJECTS/10 YRS

Fossil and Solar Asset Classes - Velocity

>5000 new plants

every 10 years

vs. 1 new coal plant

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Geographic Dispersion

Spread across a massive area

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Low Cost O&M

• Developers have sold a myth--“solar power system don’t require any maintenance…”

$0

$50,000

$100,000

$150,000

$200,000

$250,000

$300,000

$350,000

$400,000

$450,000

1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25

An

nu

al

O&

M E

xp

en

se (

$)

Year

Operations administration (planned)

Inverter replacement reserve (corrective)

Module replacement reserve (corrective)

Component parts replacement (Planned)

System inspection and monitoring (Planned)

Source: Andy Walker, NREL. 10 MW PV system

Annual O&M costs range

1st year: $7.00/kW

By year 25: $39.00/kW

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Summary

• Traditional O&M approaches don’t work

• Problem needs to be solved with a high degree of:

– Technology

– Centralization

– Automation

Event

Management

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Event Management

Monitoring

Tech

Performance

Engineer

Field

Service

Tech

Asset

Manager

>70,000 events per

day

Reduce 70,000

events to 12 role-

based actions per

day

3 actionable events per

Role

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Day-in-the-Life: Monitoring Technician - Respond

Event detection and notification

Verification

Technician acknowledges

Event

and verifies its accuracy

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Day-in-the-Life: Monitoring Technician - Diagnose

Technician diagnoses Event

to

determine Cause and Action

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Day-in-the-Life: Monitoring Technician - Restore

Technician releases to Field

Service automated work

order generated by the

Event Manager

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Day-in-the-Life: Asset Manager – Commercial Compliance

Commercial compliance

past due Event. Click link

and complete compliance

task

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Day-in-the-Life: Asset Manager – Revenue Target

Revenue target Event

missed. Click target and

drill-down to production

variance

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Day-in-the-Life: Planner & Scheduler Dispatchers get visualization

of all field maintenance

activity, in real-time

Planned outages

Unplanned outages

Curtailment orders

Mobile

workforce

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Challenges

• Data Curation

• Event Management

• Scalability

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Data Curation

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Post-processing

Intra-processing

Pre-processing

AF Analytics SQL

Data curation is the management of data throughout its lifecycle, from creation

and initial storage to the time when it is archived for posterity or becomes

obsolete and is deleted. The main purpose of data curation is to ensure

that data is reliably retrievable for future use

Reporting

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Data Curation

Data Curation

Data Acquisition

Monitor & Diagnose

Predict

Advanced analytics

Optimize

If you don’t get these

two right, all of the

advanced analytics will

be essentially useless

Data can

become the

problem, not

the solution

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Event Management

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Q - What do we do

with 70,000 events per

day?

A – Ignore 69,988 of

them

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Scalability

• How can we make this scale?

– Role-based

– User-configurable

– Onboarding utilities

• Auto asset structure creation (Elements/attributes)

• Templatized

– Elements

– Analytics

• Element relative

– Offboarding utilities

• Active/Inactive

• Auto renew

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Extending Value Creation Beyond the Enterprise Knowledge Base

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Enterprise infrastructure

PI-to-PI VPN

PF Insight SaaS

PI

Server

Community system

PI

Server

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• AF Builder

• AF SDK

• Center of Excellence (CoE)

• Connected Services

• Enterprise Program Manager (EPM)

• Field Service Engineers

• PI Cloud Connect™

• PI Connectors

• PI Coresight™

• PI DataLink®

• PI OLEDB Enterprise

• PI Web Services™

• PI Interfaces

• PI ProcessBook®

• PI Server™

• Asset Framework (AF)

• Event Frames

• High Availability (HA)

• Notifications

• Performance Equations (PE)

• System Management Tools (SMT)

• Totalizers

• PI Smart Connectors™

• PI System®

• PI System Connections

• PI System Explorer™

• PI System Field Service

• PI System Tools

• PI Tag™

• PI to PI Interface™

• PI Web API

• PI WebParts™

• Software Reliance Program (SRP)

• Technical Support

OSIsoft Product and Services Used

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RESULTS CHALLENGE SOLUTION

COMPANY and GOAL

Company

Logo

Summary

1) SaaS Portfolio Performance Management Solution

2) Cost-effective toolset for renewable power owners & operators for managing their portfolio of assets

Equipping solar owners/operators with a performance management tool that is scalable, robust and fits into their budget

Fully integrated cloud-based performance, reporting & asset management tool that

2-5% improvement in project cash flows

Dramatic reduction in fixed cost structure

• Real-time PI event detection &

notification

• Curated reporting

• Automated work orders

• Contract compliance

• Higher operational efficiencies

• Lower labor cost-of-production

• Reduced levelized cost of energy

Power Factors LLC

• High volume operational data set

• High project velocity

• Low O&M budget

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Contact Information

Steve Hanawalt steve.hanawalt@powerfactorscorp.com

Executive Vice President

Power Factors LLC www.pfdrive.com

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