Nov 8, 2006
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has recently been awarded a comprehensive contract by Portland General Electric Company (PGE) of Portland, Oregon for delivery of PGEs next generation Energy Management System (EMS).
PGE, Oregon's largest utility, chose to implement the open architecture of OSI's monarch™ EMS platform to help it continue to provide highly reliable service to approximately 775,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Portland, Salem and nearby communities.
The OSI monarch distributed open architecture will include Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Automatic Generation Control, Historical Information System/Archiving, Transmission Network Security Analysis, Operator Training Simulator, Web-based Graphical User Interface and secure ICCP communications, as well as a disaster recovery, test and quality assurance systems.
"We welcome PGE to our family of users. PGE is a strategically important client for OSI due to its location in WECC, its great innovative and progressive culture, sense of community, and its commitment to the environment. We will do our best to make sure this project is as successful as our other projects," said Bahman Hoveida, President and CEO of OSI.
"We're looking forward to working with OSI to implement a system providing the operational excellence our customers have come to expect from PGE," said Greg Kent, EMS Replacement Project Manager of PGE.
Portland General Electric (www.portlandgeneral.com), headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is a fully integrated electric utility that serves 775,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Oregon.
OSI (www.osii.com) provides open, state-of-the-art, and high-performance automation solutions to utilities worldwide. These solutions include Energy Management Systems (EMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems, Generation Management Systems (GMS), Substation Automation Systems (SAS), 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.
