Invensys wins InFusion power project

Williams Power has selected Invensys to implement an InFusion-based Generation Management System (GMS) for its fleet of electrical generation assets in the US. These assets include two companyowned power plants and six contracted facilities located across seven states. The new system will integrate data from many different automation systems and applications to help Williams precisely schedule the delivery of generation capacity from each plant according to changing demand fromcontracted markets.

The GMS will monitor demand trend data by communicating with the three contracted ISO (Independent System Transmission Operator) organizations. InFusion is an enterprise control system that combines capabilities from across Invensys with advanced enterprise information and integration technologies from both Microsoft and SAP to greatly reduce integration costs.

Replacing an existing SCADA system, the GMS will integrate data from many different automation systems and applications to help Williams precisely schedule the delivery of generation capacity from each plant according to changing demand from contracted markets. This real-time scheduling will help prevent shortfalls in capacity, as well as the generation of too much electricity, minimizing economic risk in the business and optimizing the production value of each Williams generation asset.

Specifically, InFusion Access and Historian will collect and model data from a variety of device types at the eight power plants, constantly comparing the production data in real time with customer demand trend data; and InFusion View graphical user interface and SuiteVoyager for InFusion Web portal will provide a local HMI for operator visualization and provide authorized managers with secure remote access to GMS information.