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	Customer Success Story: Fort Collins Utilities ICONICS

Customer Success Story: Fort Collins Utilities

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries	Utilities
Applicable Functions	Maintenance
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Fort Collins Light & Power had a number of specific goals in mind before upgrading its SCADA system. The SCADA software itself needed to support five substations and 2,600 data and control points using OPC communications standards. The HMI would need to interface with multiple applications including system power quality and security, to name a few. Fort Collins also planned to establish a dedicated GIG Ethernet fiber loop to each of its substations, as well as to the utility’s Drake Water Reclamation Facility, to provide a high-speed secure data highway for SCADA and future applications such as distribution automation. The utility also planned upgrades to all substation remote terminal units (RTUs) and power quality meters (involving both hardware and software). Read More
About Customer	Fort Collins, Colorado, located 60 miles north of Denver, is a town of approximately 130,000 residents and is home to Colorado State University. Money magazine named the town the “Best Place to Live” in 2006. The town’s electric utility currently serves over 65,000 customers over a 22 square mile service territory. Its five substations have a combined transformer capacity of 600 MVA. Read More
Solution	Fort Collins Light & Power utilizes ICONICS’ GENESIS32 HMI/SCADA suite to enforce a manual load shedding requirement, allowing the utility to select feeders rather than the G&T utility tripping substation transformers. The new system is also used in proactive power quality event/system disturbance notification via paging or other system alarms. Substation data, controls, security alarms, reference materials and cameras were all incorporated into the single HMI/SCADA solution. Ethernet communications were established to all substation devices via TCP/IP, thereby eliminating outdated modem technology, and all SCADA and fiber equipment were connected to uninterruptible power supplies. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Industries

Utilities

Applicable Functions

Maintenance

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Fort Collins Light & Power had a number of specific goals in mind before upgrading its SCADA system. The SCADA software itself needed to support five substations and 2,600 data and control points using OPC communications standards. The HMI would need to interface with multiple applications including system power quality and security, to name a few. Fort Collins also planned to establish a dedicated GIG Ethernet fiber loop to each of its substations, as well as to the utility’s Drake Water Reclamation Facility, to provide a high-speed secure data highway for SCADA and future applications such as distribution automation. The utility also planned upgrades to all substation remote terminal units (RTUs) and power quality meters (involving both hardware and software).

About Customer

Fort Collins, Colorado, located 60 miles north of Denver, is a town of approximately 130,000 residents and is home to Colorado State University. Money magazine named the town the “Best Place to Live” in 2006. The town’s electric utility currently serves over 65,000 customers over a 22 square mile service territory. Its five substations have a combined transformer capacity of 600 MVA.

Solution

Fort Collins Light & Power utilizes ICONICS’ GENESIS32 HMI/SCADA suite to enforce a manual load shedding requirement, allowing the utility to select feeders rather than the G&T utility tripping substation transformers. The new system is also used in proactive power quality event/system disturbance notification via paging or other system alarms. Substation data, controls, security alarms, reference materials and cameras were all incorporated into the single HMI/SCADA solution. Ethernet communications were established to all substation devices via TCP/IP, thereby eliminating outdated modem technology, and all SCADA and fiber equipment were connected to uninterruptible power supplies.

Impact #1	An HMI solution that can handle multiple uses
Impact #2	Standard industry OPC architecture, which allows for vendor independent alarm servers, trending, data historians and HMIs
Impact #3	Flexibility to communicate via multiple protocols using OPC servers

Impact #1

An HMI solution that can handle multiple uses

Impact #2

Standard industry OPC architecture, which allows for vendor independent alarm servers, trending, data historians and HMIs

Impact #3

Flexibility to communicate via multiple protocols using OPC servers

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Customer Success Story: Fort Collins Utilities

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