Midwest ISO Selects OSIsoft PI System for Monitoring and Managing One of the World’s Largest Energy Markets
Industry Standard in Data Historians Delivers Grid Reliability, Scalability and High Availability to Midwest U.S. Power Market
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (January 2, 2008) OSIsoft, the leader in performance management software, today announced that the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. (Midwest ISO) has implemented the PI System for monitoring and managing the Midwest Energy Market, one of the world’s largest energy markets. In addition to operating the Midwest Energy Market, the Midwest ISO ensures the reliable operation of nearly 94,000 miles of interconnected high voltage power lines that support the transmission of more than 129,000 MW of energy. The PI System enterprise data historian provides the Midwest ISO with real-time data management to enhance grid reliability and scalability, while minimizing risk.
“We rely on real-time data to deliver a reliable power system to our customers, so it is critical that our data historian provides us with the utmost performance,” said Jim Schinski, CIO of Midwest ISO. “With its proven ability to handle the complexity of our interconnected system, the OSIsoft PI System provides us with the high availability and scalability that we need to operate in this competitive marketplace.”
The Midwest ISO's PI System implementation will monitor 500,000 PI tags (data streams) in a High Availability (HA) configuration, interfacing to their Areva SCADA System. The Midwest ISO plans to upgrade their PI System to 600,000 data streams when their Ancillary Services Market (ASM) begins operation in mid-2008. The Midwest ISO’s ASM will enable power producers to sell additional services such as regulation services, spinning and non-spinning reserves to provide even greater grid stability.
The High Availability (HA) PI System provides large-scale ISO implementations with unparalleled data integrity and security, ensuring that information will be gathered, stored and available to everyone across the organization, even during unplanned maintenance or downtime. The HA PI System protects data with a redundant system and fault tolerant software that delivers interface failover, buffering and PI Server replication to enable customers to have the highest available uptime possible.
“For the last 25 years, we have established a proven track record of delivering a secure, interoperable data management solution that offers real-time information to drive decision support and continuous improvement,” said Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy, CEO and Founder of OSIsoft. “For large systems and ISOs across the globe, successful business operations are based on performance and sustainability. With the HA PI System, large, complex organizations can handle thousands of user requests with confidence, optimizing grid efficiency and ensuring grid reliability.”
About Midwest ISO
The Midwest ISO ensures reliable operation of, and equal access to, 93,600 miles of interconnected, high-voltage power lines in 15 U.S. states and the Canadian province of Manitoba. The Midwest ISO manages one of the world's largest energy markets, clearing more than $2 billion in energy transactions monthly. The Midwest ISO was approved as the nation's first regional transmission organization (RTO) in 2001. The non-profit 501(C)(4) organization is governed by an independent Board of Directors, and is headquartered in Carmel, Indiana with operations centers in Carmel and St. Paul, Minnesota. Membership in the organization is voluntary. For more information, visit www.midwestmarket.org.
About OSIsoft
OSIsoft (www.osisoft.com) delivers the PI System, the industry standard in enterprise historians, as the core of its real-time infrastructure platform. A global base of more than 11,000 installations across manufacturing, energy, utilities, life sciences and other process industries relies upon the OSIsoft PI System to safeguard data and deliver enterprise-wide visibility into operational health in order to manage assets, mitigate risks, and identify new market opportunities. Founded in 1980, OSIsoft, Inc. is headquartered in San Leandro, Calif., with operations worldwide and is privately held.