Jul 26, 2007
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a comprehensive contract by Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO) of Rutland, Vermont for delivery of OSI's next-generation Transmission Operations System/Energy Management System (EMS) technology.
VELCO, as manager of VT TRANSCO, operates a transmission system consisting of over 600 miles of transmission lines, including a 200 MW back-to-back HVDC Converter. In addition to operating Vermont's Transmission system, the company also provides full SCADA Master services for a Vermont distribution company.
VELCO required a state-of-the-art Transmission Operations System/Energy Management System to facilitate and enhance its operational capabilities to meet reliability requirements, mitigate Cyber Security measures, and support a seamless disaster recovery mechanism. A key objective of this project was the implementation of a more modern and flexible system based on an open system architecture, allowing for systems expansions, upgrades of hardware and software and achieving a lower recurring maintenance cost.
The new system is based on OSI's monarch™ distributed open architecture and includes Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Historical Information System, Calculation and Trending subsystems, Transmission Network Analysis, Operator Training Simulator, Web-based Graphical User Interface, Load Shed and Restoration, Equipment Outage Scheduling, Secure ICCP communications and a Backup Control Center. OSI's new EMS system replaces an ABB EMS system installed in the late 1990s.
"We welcome Vermont Transco LLC and VELCO to our family of monarch users. Selection of our technology by a Transmission operator is a testament to the maturity of our product and the features and capability it brings to manage critical transmission operations in light of the new federally mandated reliability standards. We are looking forward to a successful project and a record delivery time," said Bahman Hoveida, President & CEO of OSI.
"I am confident, based on the extensive system testing VELCO performed, that this OSI system will provide the lowest total cost of ownership for VELCO's required reliability and functionality," said Wayne Mackenzie, VELCO Process Owner of Network Services and EMS.
VELCO (www.velco.com) is Vermont's transmission system reliability resource delivering electricity to the consumer utility companies throughout Vermont. VELCO was formed in 1956 as the nations first non-discriminatory provider of transmission services.
VT Transco LLC (www.vermonttransco.com/) is a limited liability company formed by VELCO and Vermont's distribution companies, and owns Vermont's high-voltage electric transmission system.
OSI (www.osii.com) provides open, state-of-the-art, and high-performance automation solutions to utilities worldwide. These solutions include Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems, Network Management Systems (NMS), Energy Management Systems (EMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS) and Generation Management Systems (GMS), as well as individual software and hardware products and e-business solutions for utility operations. OSI is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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