PCI Webinar on Energy Accounting System June

PCI Webinar on Energy Accounting System June 27, 2014 Power Costs, Inc. 2014. All rights reserved. Confidential and Proprietary to Power Costs, Inc. May not be distributed or reproduced without permission

Webinar Agenda § Introduction o Overview on PCI GSMS Suite o Capabilities of PCI Energy Accounting System § Demo of PCI Energy Accounting System § Benefits of PCI Energy Accounting System § Q&A and Next Steps Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com

PCI Overview § PCI is an established vendor in portfolio optimization, energy accounting, transmission scheduling, bid management, bidding analytics, LMP forecasting, P&L evaluation, shadow settlement, postanalysis, and gas management § Deploy PCI GSMS Suite to Automate Bid-to-Bill Workflow for over 60 Market Participants in 9 ISO Markets (PJM, MISO, SPP, CAISO, ERCOT, NYISO, ISO-NE, IESO, and AESO) § PCI software is currently used to Manage around 50 % of the US capacity Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Page 2

PCI Generation Supply Management Suite PCI Gen. Portal Platform PCI Gen. Manager Front Office Back Office PCI Deal Management Trading PCI Asset Operations PCI Post Analysis PCI Gen. Trader Post Analysis Optimization Markets: ALL AESO CAISO ERCOT IESO MISO ISONE NYISO PJM SPP Markets: ALL ST, LT, Risk Operational Performance Metrics Markets: ALL Outage Management, Journal, Plant Interface, GADS, Energy (QF) Scheduling, Gas Pipeline Scheduling Deal Capture, E-Tag, Deal Analyst, ICE Interface, Gas Management, Contract Settlement, RT Pricing ISO Shadow Settlement, Allocations, Pre-Settlements, Reporting, Energy Accounting Markets: ALL ISO Communication, Bid/Offer Management, Bid Evaluation, Price Forecasting Transactional Database, Workflow Management, Communication, Permissions, Auditing, Web Browser Interface, APIs PCI Data Warehouse Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com P& Ana L lyze r Set tle Ana ment lyze r Pos Ana ition lyze r Cus Ana tom lyze r Cus Ana tom lyze r

PCI GSMS Suite for Market Participants PCI Gen. Manager § Bid Formulator § ISO Communication § Meter Management § Shadow Settlement § Pre-Settlement § Data Export Utility § LMP Manager § Bid Evaluator § Wind Module PCI BI & DW Tools § Data Warehouse § P&L Analyzer § Settlement Analyzer PCI Gen. Portal § PCI Deal Management & Etagging § PCI Outage Management § PCI Energy Accounting § PCI Gas Management PCI Gen. Trader § Unit Commitment § Production Costing Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Page 4

PCI Software Users PCI Suite is currently used to manage around 50% of the US Generation Capacity. MISO (80%), SPP (85%), PJM (40%), ERCOT (80%), CAISO (90%), NYISO (10%), ISO-NE (10%) Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com

PCI Energy Accounting Solution The PCI Energy Accounting (EA) System is designed to: Ø Track, calculate and verify meter data Ø Validate actual energy flows and perform Real-Time check-outs with counterparties. Manage: ü Meter data for generators ü Meter data for loads ü Dynamic Schedules ü Scheduled flows in and out of the area ü Inadvertent Energy ü Losses Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Page 6

Meter Data Management ü PCI EA can support multiple meter data sources. PCI supports multiple data channels for meters so primary, backup, and alternate sources can be tracked and compared ü Meter attributes can be easily configured in the PCI system. Meter data can be imported or calculated such as area loads Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Page 7

Validate Interchange Schedules ü PCI Energy Accounting System can be used to review and checkout schedules with counterparties. ü You can use meter data and interchange schedules stored in PCI EA to calculate loads, net scheduled & actual interchanges. Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Page 8

PCI Energy Accounting Supports Custom Calculations ü PCI supports custom calculations using Beanshell code ü Calculations can be manually initiated, scheduled, or event driven when specific data is updated ü There is no limit on the number of calculations or with the complexity of equations ü Custom Beanshell code can be stored in PCI Gen. Base and easily migrated to future releases Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Page 9

Support Full Data Auditing ü PCI EA fully supports data auditing. All meter data revisions are tracked by date (when data was created or modified), user who modified data, and user who approved data. Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Page 10

Reporting Capability ü Provide Standard hourly, daily, monthly reports ü Create customized datasets for export to other systems. ü Provide a comprehensive API to import and export data ü Provide a report wizard to enable quick ad-hoc data reporting ü Provide an optional reporting multidimensional data warehouse to store large volume of EA Data and speed up data reporting Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Page 11

Benefits of Deploying PCI Energy Accounting Solution § § § § Provide a powerful solution to validate meter data and interchange schedules Use PCI service-oriented architecture Provide configurable reports Support data exchanges with other systems using CSV, XML, or Web Services Provide optional reporting data warehouse and support commercial Business-Intelligence Tools (SSRS, Qlikview, Cognos, etc) Fully deployed in production mode Can be deployed on in-house or PCI hosted servers Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Potential Benefits for Implementing PCI Energy Accounting = 2 -5 M$/year Page 12

PCI Energy Accounting Solution Ø PCI Energy Accounting system can be deployed as an “out-of-the box” solution with specific customizations to meet business needs Ø For most projects, 90 % of the deployment is out of the box and 10 % requires custom modifications Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Page 13

PCI Reporting Data Warehouse (Optional Module) § PCI provides an optional Reporting Data Warehouse to Store Large Volume of EA Data and speed up data reporting: – Multi-Dimensional Data Model using Star – Snowflake Schema – Provide ETL code to move data from relational database to data warehouse – Optimized for Long-Term Storage – Support metadata to store Data Quality – Data Stored in GMT – Support commercial Business. Intelligence Tools (SSRS, Qlikview, Cognos, etc) Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Page 14

Key Benefits for PCI Energy Accounting System Ø Provide a highly configurable system to validate meter data and interchange schedules Ø Make meter validation process much faster, easier, and intuitive Ø Provide the capability to easily configure and update equations to perform calculations Ø Can be used to review and modify meter data in various granularities (Hourly, 5 -mn) Ø Support multiple non-time-overlapping meter configurations Ø Identify hidden problems with some meter data sources Ø Monitor troublesome meters and determine maintenance requirements Ø Provide tree-like representation to show calculations interdependencies, which allows for easy verification and corrections Ø Provide good tools to easily build custom reports Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Potential Benefits for Implementing PCI Energy Accounting = 2 -5 M$/year

Next Steps? § Arrange Web. Ex or on-site demo of PCI Energy Accounting for your team § Provide Budgetary Quote § Attend EUCI Conference on: – Maximizing Profits for your Assets in ERCOT Market, October 2014, San Antonio, TX – Using Settlement Results to Provide Feedback on Effectiveness of Bidding Strategies in PJM, November 2014, Baltimore, MD Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 www. powercosts. com Page 16

For More Information Khai Le (919) 730 -9899 kle@powercosts. com Lei Tian (405) 694 -3300 ltian@powercosts. com Andres Barbaro (405) 694 -3438 abarbaro@powercosts. com Stuart Wright (303) 917 -3565 swright@powercosts. com PCI GENERATION SUPPLY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM™ § Operations & Trading – Optimal unit commitment and economic dispatch – Fuel & Emissions Forecasting § Transmission Scheduling – Energy Accounting – ETag Schedules – OASIS Reservations § BI & Data Warehouse – P&L Analyzer – Settlement Analyzer Power Costs, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 2014 § Bid-To-Bill Automation – Forecast LMPs – Automate XML Communications – Create Unit & Demand Bids – Evaluate Bidding Strategies – Perform Shadow Settlement § Deal Management – Capture Bilateral Deals – Perform Deal Settlement – Submit NERC Tags www. powercosts. com Page 17