Aug 5, 2005
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has recently been awarded a comprehensive contract to deliver multiple SCADA/AGC/Hydro Control Master Stations to a major Investor Owned Utility (IOU) in the Western United States. The IOU, ranks as of the highest revenue producers in the United States, serving both electric and gas customers.
The systems will control hydrogenation facilities throughout the region. These facilities include several river basins, nearly 100 reservoirs, 200 dams, more than 100 hydraulic generating units, and contract rights to market power generation from various irrigation districts or water agencies.
The proposed system, based on OSI's distributed and open monarch™ architecture, includes Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Automatic Generation Control (AGC), Historical Information Archiving, Hydro Monitoring and Control functionality as well as ICCP communications with the California ISO for receiving generation targets.
"We highly value this new relationship with one of the largest utilities in the United States, and we welcome them to our family of users. This is an important project for us and we will make sure we will meet or exceed this customer's expectations," said Brian Rasefske, Vice President of Engineering for OSI.
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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