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Cannon Technologies Unveils Load Management Supervisor
Software to Interface with GE/Harris XA/21
September 23, 1998, Minneapolis, Minn.-Cannon
Technologies, Inc. of Wayzata, Minn. announced today that it has
recently completed and shipped the first version of its new Load
Management Supervisor (LMS) software to run on GE Harris Energy
Control Systems' (GE Harris) XA/21 EMS. The new software module
enables the dispatcher to operate his DSM/2 Load Management software
from the EMS console. Using load forecasts and 17 different regression
functions, the LMS program allows the operator to build, study,
and execute load management strategies to achieve the desired
peak reduction.
The first two customers to receive this software
are Minnkota Power Cooperative in Grand Forks, North Dakota and
Wolverine Power Cooperative in Cadillac, Michigan.
"The new Cannon Technologies LMS and GEHarris
XA/21 software will provide an integrated, automated way for our
control center operators or marketers to schedule varying amounts
of future hour load control," said Minnkota Power Load Management
and Metering Manager Roger Simundson. "This in turn will
allow our operators to more easily and economically match Minnkota
system future hour load requirements with future hour generation
or energy purchases/sales," said Simundson.
Among the LMS' other key features are its ability
to calculate real-time load that can be shed, and feed it into
the EMS Reserve Monitor Program, where it is counted as reserve
or standby generation. In addition, the data can also be fed to
GE Harris' Unit Commitment/Transaction Evaluation (UC/TE) in order
to allow the EMS to more efficiently determine how and when to
use existing generation capacity.
"Being able to interface with the EMS system
represents a significant leap in load management software technology,"
said Cannon Technologies' LMS co-developer Ben Wallace. "This
software gives utilities the ability to use load forecasting data
to calculate the amount of load to shed, it interfaces that data
with the GE Harris XA/21 EMS Power Network Applications (PNA)
and it controls load management and distribution capacitor banks.
This takes the concept of load management to a whole new level,"
said Wallace.
Cannon Technologies is a privately held company
founded in 1987 specializing in the development of software and
systems for electric utility remote metering, substation automation
and load management. Cannon Technologies also manufactures 1-way
and 2-way automatic meter reading (AMR) and load management systems,
and has the most widely used load management master station software
in the industry, DSM/2.
Cannon Technologies has also developed the Substation
Advisor®, an automation system for substations
that includes equipment sensors, trending applications for
predictive maintenance, and interfaces to many existing
SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems.
The Substation Advisor® was the subject of
a front-page story in the July issue of the quarterly GE
Harris quarterly publication, Synergy News, highlighting
a recent installation at Minnesota Power and the Advisor's
ability to interface with the GE Harris D20 RTU. Cannon
Technologies presently has over 240 electric utilities worldwide
using its products. Based in Wayzata, Minn., Cannon Technologies
also has branch offices in Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota
and Texas.
GE Harris Energy Control Systems, LLC, a joint venture
of GE Power Systems and the Electronic Systems Sector of Harris
Corporation, is a leading provider of innovative, real-time, information
technology solutions that meet the evolving needs of the electric
utility industry for automation, control and monitoring of critical
operations. GE Harris (www.geharris-ecs.com)
is headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, USA; with operations in
Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Livingston, Scotland, UK and Melbourne,
Florida, USA. International sales offices are located in Winnersh,
United Kingdom; Perth, Australia and Hong Kong.
For more information contact:
Jim Losleben
Director of Business Development
Cannon Technologies, Inc.
1212 E. Wayzata Blvd.
Wayzata, MN 55391
jim@cannontech.com
651.686.9547
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