ALSTOM ESCA Wins Contract At Ontario Hydro Services Company.Business Editors, Energy Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2000 ALSTOM ESCA ESCA Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis ESCA Escaflowne (anime series) ESCA European Speech Communication Association ESCA Escuela Superior de Comercio y Administración (México) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ALS Als (äls), Ger. Alsen, island, 121 sq mi (313 sq km), Sønderjylland co., S Denmark, in the Lille Bælt, separated from the mainland by the narrow Alensund. ) was awarded a contract from Ontario Hydro Services Company (OHSC OHSC Original Hard Shell Case (used when selling guitars) OHSC Occupational Health Smart Card (UK) OHSC Occupational Health and Safety Commission ) to provide a Transmission Network Management System, the company announced today. A Transmission Network Management System combines the functions of a Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (application) Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition - (SCADA) Systems are used in industry to monitor and control plant status and provide logging facilities. SCADA systems are highly configurable, and usually interface to the plant via PLCs. (SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) A process control application that collects data from sensors and machines on the shop floor or in remote locations and sends them to a central computer for management and control. ) system with the transmission network analysis functions of an Energy Management System. The first phase focuses on the implementation of the network analysis functions and will allow OHSC to be operationally ready for the start of Ontario's open access electricity market scheduled for November 7, 2000. "We are on an aggressive schedule to deliver this product," says Randy Berry, Account Manager at ALSTOM ESCA. "Because of our partnership with OHSC and its highly-skilled work force, this goal is achievable." The Transmission Network Management System will be the key computing component of OHSC's Integrated Transmission Operating Facilities (ITOF ITOF International Tankers Oil pollution Fund ) which monitors and operates the transmission system for the province of Ontario. The ITOF is a new centralized architecture that will allow OHSC to move forward with amalgamation of its existing operating centers. "Our objective is to dramatically increase the effectiveness and efficiency of our transmission operating function by providing our operating staff with powerful new operating tools," said Ian Bradley, Manager of Operating Facilities and Tools at OHSC. "The integrated platform supplied by ALSTOM ESCA is critical to achieving this." Ontario Hydro Services Company is one of the successor companies to Ontario Hydro, and was formed as a part of a major restructuring of Ontario's electricity industry. OHSC officially began in April 1999 and is an electricity transmission and distribution, telecom, and energy services company. Through its subsidiaries, it owns and operates Ontario's high voltage transmission system transporting electricity to large industrial customers and municipal utilities, low voltage distribution facilities that serve 930,000 retail customers and smaller municipal utilities in the province, and a province wide telecom system. OHSC has approximately 5,600 full-time employees at facilities and offices throughout Ontario. ALSTOM ESCA, based in Bellevue, Washington, pioneered the development of product-based, real-time control systems for electric utilities and markets its products to utilities and other industries worldwide. ALSTOM ESCA is a subsidiary of ALSTOM, a world leader in the energy and transport infrastructure markets. ALSTOM is organized into six sectors that are supported by the ALSTOM Network: Energy, Transmission and Distribution, Transport, Power Conversion, Marine, and Contracting. ALSTOM offers a complete range of systems, components, and services covering design and manufacture, as well as commissioning and long-term maintenance, and has unique expertise in systems integration and management of turnkey projects. Present in 60 countries, ALSTOM now directly employs 92,000 people. The Company is listed on the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (NYSE:ALS), Paris, and London stock exchanges London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. . |
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