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Operational Intelligence for Renewable Energy

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Team

• Founders out of Motorola, Cork, Ireland since 2007

• Telecoms network management

– collectively, circa 40 years experience

• Senior management or engineering roles in global corporations

• CFO co-founded Pace Soft Silicon

– India-based video technology for mobile handsets

– Sold to Nvidia Inc. in 2006

• Located at National Software Centre in Cork

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Wind Industry Maturity Curve



OpEx IntensiveCapEx Intensive

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Ca

pa

cit

y (

MW

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DNK

21%ESP

12%PRT

9%IRL

8%DEU

7%GRC

4%NLD

3%AUT

3%GBR

2%

EST

2%

ITA

2%

SWE

1%

FRA

1%

LTU

1%

Proportion of 2007 electricity demandmet by Wind Energy

Global Growth (2008) 27%

Infrastructure Build-Out

Wind Portfolio Operations Challenges



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100% Availability

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ity Revenue Opportunity

Infrastructure Build-Out

Existing Distributed Energy IT Architecture



Operations Support (Tools and Methods)

SCADA

Extensions

Enterprise

System

Customisations

Manual Methods

and

Ad-hoc Software

Engineering Systems (SCADA)

Enterprise Systems

AND

/OR

AND

/OR

•Enterprise Resource Planning

•Customer Relationship Management

•Financial Management

•Personnel Management

•Asset Management

•Documentation Management

•Data Warehousing

•Turbine Parameter Monitoring (Mechanical, Electrical, Ambient)

•Alarm Generation and Reporting

•Output Monitoring and Control

Operations Support System for Renewable Energy



ServusNet’s Operations Support System

Engineering Systems (SCADA)

Enterprise Systems

•Enterprise Resource Planning

•Customer Relationship Management

•Financial Management

•Personnel Management

•Asset Management

•Documentation Management

•Data Warehousing

•Turbine Parameter Monitoring (Mechanical, Electrical, Ambient)

•Alarm Generation and Reporting

•Output Monitoring and Control

•Multi-Vendor, Multi-Windfarm Portfolio Management

•Decision Support at Operations Level

•Domain-Specific Value-Added Applications

•Focus on Cost Saving plus Revenue Enhancement

•Maximum Flexibility on Scalable Platform

7

Addressing Existing Pain Points

7

Poor Multi-Vendor Data Capability

Cumbersome Remote Access to

SCADA data

Operational Procedures and Documentation

Overheads

Inadequate Windfarm Data for

Production Forecasting

Inconsistent , Labour -Intensive Windfarm Event

Monitoring

Manual, Error-Prone Analysis and

Reporting

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Operational Intelligence

• Historical Analysis

• Real Time Information

• Production Forecasting

8

ServusNet’s Operations Support System

8

SCADA(Turbine Vendor B)

SCADA(Turbine Vendor C)

SCADA(Turbine Vendor A)

Windfarm OneSpain

Windfarm TwoScotland

Windfarm ThreeIreland

Equipment Management

Operations-Level Management

ServusNet Windfarm Applications

ServusNet Mediation Framework(Multi-Vendor, Scalable, Reliable)

Windfarm

Characterisatio

n

Daily/Monthly

Reports

Customised

Workflows

KPI Dashboard

Composite

Power Curve

Actionable

Alarms

Rem

ote

Lo

g-I

n

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Performance and Outage Anomalies

Day-Ahead Forecast

Summary

• Distributed Generation is Maturing Rapidly

• Complex Portfolios Driving Operational Challenges

• Opportunity to Provide Operations Support Systems

• Exploiting Telecoms Expertise and Technology for Immediate Value-Add

• Scalable Product Anticipates Portfolio and Energy Market Trends



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