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Ohio Valley Electric Corporation Awards OSI a Contract to Supply a New Energy Management System

Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a major contract by Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC) of Piketon, Ohio, to be the supplier of its next-generation Energy Management System (EMS) technology.

OVEC's main motivation for this project has been the implementation of a more modern and secure operations control system based on an open architecture, facilitating future upgrades of hardware and software as well as a lower recurring maintenance cost.

OVEC and its wholly owned subsidiary, Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corporation (IKEC), were formed in 1952 by investor-owned utilities furnishing electric service in the Ohio River Valley area. OVEC's Kyger Creek Plant in Cheshire, Ohio, and IKEC's Clifty Creek Plant in Madison, Indiana, have nameplate generating capacities of 1,086.3 MW and 1,303.56 MW, respectively. These two generating stations are connected by a network of 776 circuit miles of 345kV transmission lines. OVEC has interconnections with several major mid-western utilities.

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, Operator Training Simulator and Secure ICCP communications, as well as a redundant Backup Control Center.

"We welcome OVEC to our family of monarch users. This is a unique and interesting opportunity for us due to the nature of OVEC, who is jointly owned by several investor-owned utilities or utility holding companies and an affiliate of a generation and transmission rural electric cooperative. We look forward to a very successful project," said Bahman Hoveida, President and CEO of OSI.

OVEC (www.ovec.com) and IKEC were organized in October 1952 by 15 sponsoring utilities. Parent companies of the sponsoring utilities are Allegheny Energy, Inc. (NYSE: AYE), American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), Buckeye Power, Inc., Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK), DPL, Inc. (NYSE: DPL), E.ON AG, FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) and Vectren Corp. (NYSE: VVC).

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.

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