Jul 23, 2012
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has successfully delivered and implemented a large-scale new Generation Management System (GMS) for North America's largest competitive energy supplier, Direct Energy LP, based on OSI's monarch™ (Multi-platform Open Network ARCHitecture) platform.
Operating with more than six million customer relationships in ten Canadian provinces, forty-six US states and the District of Columbia, Direct Energy is the largest competitive retailer of energy and related services in North America. Direct Energy owns and operates three combined cycle power plants and receives the output of five wind farms under power purchase agreements within the ERCOT market, with a total generation capacity of more than 1,200 MWs.
Direct Energy previously used a third-party Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE) service provider to communicate with ERCOT and monitor/report/control the real-time operation of their generation assets. Direct Energy intended to move these ERCOT market assets under their own control, as well as to expand their generation assets within the PJM, NYISO and ISO NE markets. In service of these expansion goals, as well as to improve operational reliability, efficiency and compliance to NERC regulatory requirements, Direct Energy has implemented a comprehensive new GMS system based on OSI's monarch automation platform.
This comprehensive new monarch based GMS system includes the advanced functionality of OSI's next-generation, .NET based Graphical User Interface (GUI); Remote Console GUI; Dynamic Tabular Display Subsystem; Data Engineering and Maintenance Subsystem; Advanced Alarm Management System; Real-time and Historical Trending; Communications Front-end Processor; Historical Information System and Data Archiving; Secured Inter-control Center Communications Protocol; Calculation and Scripting Subsystem; Electronic Operator Logging System; Disturbance Data Collection; Automatic Generation Control and Dispatch; Energy Market Control Algorithm; and Market Operations System software products.
Direct Energy (www.directenergy.com) is North America's largest energy-related service provider, with more than 6 million residential and commercial customer relationships. Direct Energy provides customers with choice and support in managing their energy costs through a portfolio of innovative products and services. A subsidiary of Centrica plc, one of the world's leading integrated energy companies, Direct Energy operates in 46 U.S. states, plus the District of Columbia and ten provinces in Canada.
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 Smart Grid Solutions for utility operations internationally. OSI is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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