Alaskan electric company chooses OSI to implement SCADA and energy management system

Summary

December 12, 2016 - Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a contract by Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA) of Fairbanks, Alaska for a SCADA and Energy Management System (EMS) based on OSI's monarch platform. The SCADA/EMS system is intended to allow GVEA to fulfill existing needs for Generation and Energy Management, as well as provide a platform that can be adapted to future requirements for Distribution Management. This system replaces a legacy Schneider/Telvent system.

GVEA's SCADA/EMS system will include OSI's Graphical User Interface; Advanced SCADA and Alarm Management; Communications Front-end Processor; Inter-control Center Communications; Load Shed and Restoration; Automatic Generation Control and Dispatch; Transmission Network Security Analysis; Equipment Outage Scheduler; and CHRONUS, OSI's historian and data analytics platform supported by big data technology for massive time-series data collection and data mining.