Renewable Energy Company Selects Generation Management System for Entire U.S. Wind Fleet

    June 20, 2012
    Open Systems International, Inc. has been selected by a prominent global renewable energy company to supply a comprehensive new Generation Management System (GMS) that will be used to control and monitor their entire fleet of wind generation sites in various energy markets, including 11 sites currently in ERCOT, one site in PJM, one site in NYISO and one site under construction in MISO, along with provision for future wind plants in RTO and non-RTO markets.

    Open Systems International, Inc.  has been selected by a prominent global renewable energy company to supply a comprehensive new Generation Management System (GMS) that will be used to control and monitor their entire fleet of Wind Generation sites in various energy markets, including 11 sites currently in ERCOT, one site in PJM, one site in NYISO and one site under construction in MISO, along with provision for future wind plants in RTO and non-RTO markets. For security and competitive reasons, this company has wished to remain anonymous.

    This state-of-the-art new GMS system will be based on OSI’s Monarch (Multi-platform Open Network Architecture) platform and is set to feature the advanced functionality of OSI’s next-generation, .NET based graphical user interface (GUI) as well as OSI’s advanced alarm management System; Real-time and Historical Trending; Communications Front-end Processor; Historical Information System and Data Archiving; Secure Inter-control Center Communications Protocol; Automatic Generation Control and Dispatch; Energy Market Control Algorithm; and Market Operations System software products, with Monarch interfaces to OPC, ODBC and PI Historian.

    “OSI is very pleased to have been selected to play a role in this renewable energy project. The dedication to the advancement of emissions free and renewable power is shared by OSI and we are very pleased by this opportunity to contribute to such industry leading efforts. ,” said Bahman Hoveida, OSI’s President and CEO.

    Open Systems International- http://www.osii.com/
     

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