Backbone
Cannon Power Line Communications (PLC) System with injection
at three substations, this utility serves water, gas
and electric, and controls nearly 10 megawatts of load.
One of their unique applications is monitoring of propane
injection in the gas system using load survey metering
of the Cannon PLC system. They have been a user since
1988 and upgraded to Yukon® in 2002.
Central Midwestern Municipal
Power Pool
Electrical transmission provider
58 municipalities
5 states
Aggregate loads
Monitor/control generators
Coordinate load management
Cannon Technologies,
the provider of load management systems to over 20 of
their members, furnished a Yukon® platform and
system expertise on communications. We also configured
GE Remote Terminal Units to allow real-time monitoring
and control, as well as Web-based information, to member
cities.
Municipal
Transmission supplier for 10 member systems
Large and small municipal customers
Affordable load control system
Central control
SCADA interface
This client needed
a flexible system that allowed them to control based on total
system demand for all of the members. In addition, they wanted
to have an easy way to administer customer credits and sign
ups. They implemented the Cannon Technologies system with
a STARS distributed customer database. They are presently
controlling nearly 10 megawatts.