FOXBORO, MASSACHUSETTS - January 11, 2005 - Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico (ONS), the Brazilian National Electric Grid Operator, recently awarded CDI Power, a long term Foxboro SCADA products integrator in Brazil, a contract to automate the southern portion of the Brazilian electrical grid as part of the country-wide SINOCON energy dispatching project. Under this contract, Invensys will supply CDI with US $1.4 million worth of Foxboro's advanced remote terminal units (RTUs). These will serve as the core of the control platforms in 34 high-voltage electrical substations located in the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul.
Following a very demanding prequalification process in which ONS carefully evaluated the technical features, quality, reliability, and track record of a large number of remote terminal unit vendors, the Foxboro SCADA unit of Invensys Process Systems was selected as one of the four vendors to provide RTUs for the Brazilian energy dispatch network.The Foxboro RTU 50 is designed to provide highly reliable, high-performance electric substation automation functionality, including transformer synchronization, capacitor bank switching, circuit breaker re-closure, automatic load shedding, power calculations, IED interfacing, Sequence of Events (SOE) recording with 1 millisecond resolution, plus full data logging and archiving.
Foxboro RTUs are already installed in more than 300 electrical substations across Brazil.
About ONS
ONS (Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico) based in Rio de Janeiro, was created in 1998 by the Brazilian Government to operate the National Interconnected Electric System as well as to administer the main transmission network in Brazil. ONS was organized as a privately owned non-profit civil entity and operates the Interconnected System by delegation from it's Administrative Board Members where the agents of the energy sector (Generation, Transmission and Distribution companies) are represented, following rules, criteria and methodologies established by a code called the Grid Procedures approved by ANEEL (the Brazilian Electric System Regulation Entity).
See www.aneel.gov.br and www.ons.com.br .
About Invensys Process Systems
Process Systems, a business unit of Invensys plc, provides products, services and solutions for the automation and optimization of industrial process plants. Invensys Process Systems includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world.
These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world's largest refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, pulp and paper mills, and mineral processing plants.The Invensys Group ( www.invensys.com ) is headquartered in the UK and listed on the London Stock Exchange. With 35,000 employees operating in 60 countries, Invensys helps customers to improve their performance and profitability, building value for end users and shareholders alike.