Jun 8, 2006
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a contract by the Salt River Project (SRP) of Phoenix, Arizona to supply SRP's next-generation Energy Management System (EMS).
SRP provides electricity to more than 890,000 customers in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. It is part of the critical Southwestern transmission grid that includes large inter-area transfers due to the unprecedented growth in the Southwestern USA. This growth and mandated new industry regulations necessitate a modern and reliable open system solution that not only supports large transmission and generation monitoring and control operations, but also provides for more frequent, seamless and less cumbersome technology upgrades.
SRP's main motivation for embarking on this new project was the implementation of a modern and secure operations control system based on an open system architecture that facilitates future upgrades of hardware and software as well as a lower recurring maintenance costs. SRP's objectives were best met with OSI's monarch™ EMS architecture and implementation strategy.
The proposed system is based on OSI's monarch distributed open architecture and includes Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Automatic Generation Control and Dispatch (AGC), Historical Information System, Transmission Network Analysis, Operator Training Simulator, Secure ICCP communications, and interfaces with CAISO, WECC, and various enterprise systems. The project implementation is based on OSI's Rapid Project Methodology (RPM) and is planned for a record completion of ten months.
"Winning the trust of a major organization such as SRP is indeed a great milestone for OSI. This is again a major affirmation of our superior technology, corporate culture, intense customer focus and commitment to the market. We welcome SRP to our user community and fully intend to make this a world-class EMS implementation," said Bahman Hoveida, President and CEO of OSI.
"SRP wanted to update its energy management system. We were pursuing a system that was very reliable, easy to maintain and upgrade while being user-friendly. It was important that the system provider be a partner with us as we continually enhance the operation of the electric system in the years ahead," said Gary Harper, Systems Operations Manager of SRP.
SRP (www.srpnet.com) operates or participates in 11 major power plants and numerous other generating stations, including thermal, nuclear, natural gas and hydroelectric sources and provides electricity to more than 890,000 retail customers in the greater Phoenix area. SRP has a peak generation capacity of nearly 7500 MW and its service territory spans 2900 square miles, including an expansive transmission network.
OSI (www.osii.com) provides open, state-of-the-art, and high-performance automation solutions to electric utilities worldwide. These solutions include Energy Management Systems (EMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems, and Generation Management Systems (GMS), as well as individual software products and e-business solutions for electric utility operations. OSI is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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