Jan 19, 2006
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a contract by the City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri, to replace their existing Energy Management System (EMS).
City Utilities (CU) recently embarked on a competitive bidding process to replace its present Siemens/Telegyr 8000 EMS system. The business drivers that necessitated the change-out included the need for a more open, modern and flexible platform that could adapt easily to business and regulatory changes and allow for easier and more cost effective annual software upgrades. CU was also looking for a more mainstream product supported by a large user base that could provide new functionality in the areas of IP-based communications, cyber security, disaster recovery, and operator training.
After a rigorous and methodical evaluation of available industry solutions, CU has chosen the OSI technology for its next-generation Energy Management System.
The proposed project is based on OSI's monarch™ distributed open architecture and will include Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Automatic Generation Control and Dispatch (AGC), Historical Information Archiving, Calculation and Trending subsystems, Transaction Scheduling and Management, Transmission Network Security Analysis, Operator Training Simulator, interfaces to SPP and ICCP communications.
"We warmly welcome City Utilities of Springfield to our monarch user community. CU's decision to leave a Unix-based system to join OSI's Windows community reflects a growing trend in the industry and shows the coming of age of Windows as a serious contender for mission critical applications. We will make sure this project is implemented with the highest degree of quality and customer satisfaction which OSI is famous for," said Bahman Hoveida, CEO and President of OSI.
"OSI's demonstrated commitment and responsiveness to the needs of their customers, as well as providing the most comprehensive technical and economic solution, were the major factors in selection of their proposal," said Gale Edwards, EMS Coordinator for City Utilities of Springfield.
City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri (www.cityutilities.net) is a progressive, community-owned utility providing southwest Missouri with electric generation, transmission and distribution, gas distribution, water supply treatment and distribution, and bus transit services. The City Utilities service territory covers approximately 320 square miles including all of the City of Springfield. As of 2004, City Utilities serves more than 250,000 electric, gas, and water customers combined. CU generates 821 MW of electricity through a mix of coal fired and combustion turbine generation and power purchase contracts. CU's customers enjoy utility prices among the lowest in the United States.
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.
For additional information regarding this news release please contact news@osii.com.
