Mid-Sized Midwestern IOU

At this utility, which is the result of mergers of several smaller companies, Yukon® is used several places in the organization. With over 1,000 distribution feeder capacitor banks under control, the operating engineers use Yukon® to manage banks, look for failures, and setup the Yukon® control logic to optimize power factor. The algorithm is driven by real-time data pulled directly from the EMS.

Meanwhile, the power marketing group relies on Yukon® to manage over 60,000 consumer loads representing over 60 MW on peak. Power marketing uses an installation contractor to manage portions of the peak management offering. That off-site contractor uses a limited access view of Yukon® to install and manage equipment in the field.

Still another group is building out Web-based substation monitoring in key utility substations and providing monitoring and alarming access to engineers throughout the company. Using the simple, yet effective Esubstation™ user interface, a browser, and Cannon's unique, inexpensive substation equipment sensors, these engineers get information on abnormal situations in the substation before they cause a major problem.

The IT department maintains a single Yukon® installation, using the company's standard Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 database server. Users from the different departments see what they need and manage their own business tasks while IT has only one system to support and backup.