May 12, 2005
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has recently been awarded a contract by Muscatine Power and Water (MP&W) of Iowa to supply a replacement Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition and Energy Management System (SCADA/EMS). The system will be used to monitor and control MP&W's Electric and Water network.
The system, which will be based on OSI's monarch™ distributed open architecture and will run on the Linux operating system, will include Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Historical Archiving, Calculation and Trending capabilities. The Generation scheduling and control applications will incorporate Automatic Generation Control, Unit Commitment, and Transaction Evaluation. In addition, a standalone Development System, ICCP Communications and interfaces to the Midwest ISO are included. The fully redundant system is co-located at multiple geographical sites to provide Disaster Recovery in case of emergencies.
"We are very pleased and excited that MP&W has chosen OSI and the monarch platform as their preferred solution amongst a number of solutions available in the industry. We welcome MP&W to our user family and we will do everything possible to make sure MP&W will be very pleased with the decision to choose OSI," said Bahman Hoveida, OSI President & CEO.
"MP&W has concluded that the openness of OSI's system and the demonstrated experience of OSI's staff will provide the best solution as we transition away from proprietary, single-sourced hardware and software platforms," said Mark A. Nelson, Chief Operations Engineer at MP&W. "Furthermore, the OSI proposal represented the best technical and economic solution for MP&W and we are eager to complete this project in partnership with a recognized industry leader."
Muscatine Power and Water (MP&W) (www.mpw.org) is the largest municipal electric utility in Iowa providing electricity to approximately 11,000 customers and water to 9200 customers. MP&W owns and operates three coal-fired boilers and four generating units. MP&W's facilities for water production, treatment and distribution encompass an average of 27.3 million gallons of water a day. Muscatine Power and Water also provides state-of-the-art communications services including Cable television, high-speed Internet service, as well as municipal area network (MAN) services.
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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