Sep 1, 2004
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been recently awarded a contract by The Energy Authority® (TEA®) of Jacksonville, Florida, to supply a SCADA and a Generation Management System (GMS). The project will be staged and implemented onsite using a fast track schedule with a tentative completion date in October 2004.
The proposed system is based on OSI's distributed and open monarch™ architecture and includes Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, DNP communications, and Historical Information Archiving. It also enables The Energy Authority to exchange data via ICCP communications with its members and other, third-party power pools. The system will be augmented in a subsequent phase with Generation Dispatch and Control functions as well as Energy Scheduling and Trading applications. This flexible Generation Management platform will empower The Energy Authority to meet its evolving business needs and organizational growth.
"We are pleased to have been chosen by The Energy Authority to implement this important project for them. We welcome them to our growing monarch user community and will do everything possible to make this a successful project," said Bahman Hoveida, OSI President & CEO.
"We are operating under an aggressive schedule to stay ahead of market changes," said Tim Burnett, Director of Information Technology at The Energy Authority. "Consequently, it is very important to us that OSI has the proven track record to meet our requirements in the necessary time-frame. In addition, OSI's open platform is the best fit for our corporate strategy."
The Energy Authority (TEA) (www.teainc.org) is a non-profit energy marketing organization formed for public power by public power. The company provides comprehensive resource management and optimization services to publicly-owned utilities, including trading and marketing physical power and natural gas, energy risk assessment and management services, credit risk management, contract management, back-office services and more.
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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