Dec 20, 2005
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a contact to supply a SCADA System for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's (PREPA) Palo Seco Power Plant. The award is part of the construction of a large indoor gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) substation and a 115/38KV GIS transmission center that will help meet the increasing demand for energy on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico.
The prime contractor for this substation project is ABB T&D (www.abb.com). Microsol Inc. (www.microsol.com) is the supplier of the automation control system for the project which includes the integration of over 100 protective relays and IEDs, hardwired I/O modules, a redundant substation Local Area Network, and a projection wall display. The OSI monarch™ distributed SCADA system will serve as the Master Station control system for this very large substation.
The proposed OSI project includes Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Historical Information Archiving, Calculation and Trending subsystems, and a web-based user interface. The Unix-based system will use the Sun Solaris™ platform.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (www.prepa.com) is a public corporation and government agency that was founded in 1941. Its mission is to provide electric energy services to clients in the most efficient, cost-effective and reliable manner in harmony with the environment, health and security. Its vision is to ensure that PREPA's operations are competitive vis a vis to similar corporations around the world. PREPA produces, transmits and distributes, practically, all the electric power used in Puerto Rico. It is one of the major public electric power corporations 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.
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