ORAP ® New User Orientation March 4, 2007 Carlos Garcia Strategic Power Systems, Inc.

3/4/07 p.2 Who is Strategic Power Systems (SPS)?  Information Technology and Reliability Engineering Co. –Compiling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) data  Focus –Gas and Steam Turbine Plants Power Generation Oil and Gas  Industry Methodology –Common coding structure (EBS & KKS) –IEEE and ISO standards –NERC and WEC compliant –Strong support from EPRI

3/4/07 p.3 SPS & WTUI SPS Supports WTUI GE Aero ORAP Contract Legend SPS Installs 1 st ORAP LINK™ at CP&L SPS Introduces ORAP Parts Tracking™ SPS Introduces 1 st PC Based Entry Tool SPS Introduces ORAP Interactive™ web-based reporting SPS moves to Charlotte, NC Introduced Parts Tracking & Configuration Management Module in ORAP SPS Incorporated Albany, NY SPS Introduces ORAP Cycles Tracking™ WTUI Founded SPS notetakers at WTUI

3/4/07 p.4 Base ORAP Base ORAP ®  Proprietary database –Operating and maintenance information on total plant equipment  Benchmarking –Customer and market reports  Participants submit data on a monthly basis  Quarterly reports provided to participants

3/4/07 p.5 Data Requirements  Event Data: - Begin Date/Time/End Date - Outage Type (Forced, Scheduled, Unscheduled, Derating) - Component (Equipment that caused the Event) - Outage Mechanism (Failure or Maintenance Reason) - Detailed Narrative (Symptom, Corrective Action Performed and Root Cause of Outage)  Operational Data: - Service Hours - Reserve Hours - Attempted and Successful Starts - MW Hrs Generated or Hp, ETC  Counter Reading Data: - Total Service Hours - Factored Hours/Equivalent Hours - Total MW Hrs Generated - Total Starts, ETC

3/4/07 p.6 Data Output Compares plant component data on a yearly basis Compares all your unit(s) maintenance factors and % on a per year basis RAM Benchmarking

3/4/07 p.7 ORAP Benefits  Preventative Maintenance –Trends across the Fleet –Breakdown by components and sub-components (total plant) –Availability –Reliability –Service Factor –Starting Reliability –Outage Factors –Mean Time Values  Benchmarking –Your unit vs. total Fleet in ORAP –Your unit vs. Best in Class Performers in ORAP  Forecasting… e.g. Hot Section Overhauls

3/4/07 p.8 Revenue Opportunity  Extended Intervals Between Maintenance & Engine Removals  Determine Source of Downtime… Frequency & Duration  Define Parts Life Limits Empirically  ORAP Provides Critical Information That Helps You Better Understand Your Business  ORAP Will Help Your Business Be Profitable  Industry Expectations… Return on Investment Must Result In… –5% reduction in inventory… –5% reduction in planned maintenance… –25% reduction in unreliability… –10% reduction in RO costs…

3/4/07 p.9 Who Uses ORAP… Just a Sample

3/4/07 p.10 Why ORAP?  Largest and Most accurate RAM database –All OEM Gas and Steam Turbines –All markets  Benchmarking –Your unit vs. the Fleet and Best in Class  Close Relationship with OEMs –ORAP supports design and quality efforts with many OEMs  Customer Focus –Value-added service supporting participants and OEMs  Open minded

3/4/07 p.11 Questions?

3/4/07 p.12 Visit our Booths! – 517 & 616  Register to WIN an Apple iPod Nano and a AMEX gift Card!  Join ORAP here at WTUI –We will send everything you need to your $100 American Express Gift Card

3/4/07 p.13 Detailed ORAP Screenshots

3/4/07 p.14 Event Data

3/4/07 p.15 Input - Events Screen

3/4/07 p.16 Input – Counter Data

3/4/07 p.17 Input – Operational Data