Feb 25, 2004
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has recently been awarded a contract to supply an Energy Management System (EMS) to Empire District Electric Company (Empire) of Missouri. The new EMS system will be installed in the Empire System Operations Control Center in Joplin, Missouri, replacing an aging Telegyr 8500 Energy Management System. The OSI system will allow Empire to optimally manage its current generation, transmission and distribution assets, and its market operations in the Southwest Power Pool, while providing the capability to meet future growth and expansion and functionality requirements in a cost effective and efficient manner.
The proposed system, based on OSI's distributed and open monarch™ architecture, includes Automatic Generation Control (AGC), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, DNP communications, Historical Information Archiving, Contingency Analysis, as well as State Estimator and Topology Processing functionality. The project, which employs the SuSE Linux operating system for servers, Microsoft® Windows® for operator workstations and MySQL™ database management system, is to be fully implemented in two phases.
"We welcome Empire to our family of OSI users, and our Linux family in particular. Empire's decision to select the OSI system is a true testament to our proven approach in delivering the best technology at the lowest ownership cost to our customers. We welcome our new partnership with Empire and look forward to a very successful project," said Bahman Hoveida, OSI President & CEO.
"Empire believes OSI will provide an EMS system that will be a good match for us going forward. The monarch system and OSI have the capability and flexibility to help us meet our upcoming operating, market based, and regulatory challenges," said Karl Doner, Manager of Transmission Operations for Empire.
Empire District Electric Company (NYSE:EDE) (www.empiredistrict.com) is an investor-owned transmission, generation, and distribution utility providing electric service to approximately 154,000 customers in southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas, northeast Oklahoma, and northwest Arkansas. Empire has a generation capacity of 1138 MW and a peak load of 1041 MW. The Company also provides fiber optic and Internet services, customer information software services, as well as utility industry technical training. Empire provides water service in three incorporated communities in Missouri as well.
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.
For additional information regarding this news release please contact news@osii.com.
