Feb 15, 2008
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a major contract by a world-renowned Energy Concerns (EC) North American business unit for supply of a comprehensive new Generation Management System (GMS). The proposed project is based on the distributed open architecture of OSI's monarch™ GMS, giving the company 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 initially, and for other subsequent markets and assets in North America in the following phases of the project.
The OSI monarch system serves as part of an integrated solution to provide a unified GMS and Scheduling and Settlement platform for the EC, providing vital operational capability and allowing the EC to become a certified Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE) in the ERCOT market.
"As large global energy conglomerates diversify and acquire generation assets in North America, the breadth of our technology, our experience in the utilities business and energy markets, and our rapid project deployment strategy will greatly facilitate their undertaking of these new ventures, while creating a whole new market for our products and services. We welcome this new high profile customer to our family of monarch users and to the list of our customers in ERCOT," said Bahman Hoveida, President and CEO of OSI.
OSI's monarch GMS will provide the company with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Automatic Generation Control and Dispatch, Historical Information Archiving, calculation and trending subsystems, interfaces to the OSIsoft Historian, Web-based Graphical User Interface and a Backup Control/Disaster Recovery System. The implementation of this system will enable exchanging of data via DNP and/or ICCP communications with ERCOT, PJM and IESO, as well as other Energy Markets.
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.
For additional information regarding this news release please contact news@osii.com.
* Note: For security and competitive considerations, EC has wished to remain anonymous.
