Oct 3, 2007
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a contract by Austin Energy of Austin, Texas, for supply of a comprehensive new Generation Management System (GMS). OSI's monarch™ GMS platform will give Austin Energy a flexible, reliable and secure system to provide Real-time generation resource monitoring, dispatch and control services for its assets in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) region and participation in the ERCOT Nodal Market operations.
Austin Energy, which owns more than 2,600 MW of generation assets serving customers in Texas capital city and surrounding counties, has created the top performing renewable energy program in the nation and the nations first and largest green building program. As an innovative and progressive organization, Austin Energy chose to team with OSI, a leading provider of open and innovative automation and market solutions, to provide its next-generation GMS technology. OSI's new GMS system replaces services provided by a legacy ABB Ranger Energy Management System.
The proposed system is based on OSI's monarch distributed open architecture and includes Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Web-based Graphical User Interface, Automatic Generation Control and Dispatch, Historical Information System, Calculation and Trending subsystem, Secure ICCP, DNP and Modbus communications, NERC monitoring and a Backup Control Center, as well as interfaces with ERCOT and with Austin Energy's Market Operating and settlement Systems.
"We welcome Austin Energy to our user base of Generation Management Systems and specifically to our expanding customer base operating in the ERCOT market. As our customers transition from the Zonal to the Nodal ERCOT market model, they face time pressures and technical challenges that only a flexible and open systems architecture can overcome. We are confident that this project will be of highest caliber and delivered on-time for ERCOT market trials and subsequent full operation in December 08," said Bahman Hoveida, President and CEO of OSI.
Austin Energy (www.austinenergy.com) is the 10th largest public power utility in the country with 380,000 customers and serving a population of 880,000. The utility provides low cost, reliable power and is nationally recognized for some of the most advanced and comprehensive energy efficiency and Green Building programs in the nation.
OSI (www.osii.com) provides open, state-of-the-art, and high-performance automation solutions to utilities worldwide. These solutions include Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems, Network Management Systems (NMS), Energy Management Systems (EMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS) and Generation Management Systems (GMS), as well as individual software and hardware products and e-business solutions for utility operations. OSI is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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