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Operator at a control room desk with several monitors showing alarm dashboards

PowerNet reduces their number of nuisance alarms by over 50% in just a few months from installing AlarmWatch. In the first three months, chattering alarms were reduced by 50%, stale alarms were reduced by 68% and the time the alarm system spent in flood condition was reduced by 58%.

Overhead power line equipment on a pole against a blue sky

Dakota Electric Association (DEA), founded in 1937 by a group of farmers, is a member-owned, non-profit electric utility. It serves more than 95,000 members south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, and upgraded its obsolete SCADA master station with iPower.

Three workers in hard hats connecting cables at an electrical switchgear cabinet

In phase 2 of a secondary distribution SCADA automation project, system integrator Lucy Switchgear have been working closely with the Electricity Company of Ghana to provide a full turnkey automation solution. The project covers more than 50 automated sites in Kumasi, with a dual redundant SCADA control system built on the iPower and iFIX platform.

Dispatcher at a SCADA workstation in front of a wall map of the electrical system

Flathead Electric completed a major upgrade to the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA) that allows remote communication with Co-op substations. Dispatchers at headquarters can monitor the system and operate equipment remotely, which the co-op says allows quicker outage response. Fourteen of its 26 substations are linked.

Power poles with line equipment in front of snow-capped mountains

Network Tasman is a customer trust-owned electricity distribution company whose principal activity is to distribute electricity to approximately 30,000 rural, residential, industrial and commercial customers. It selected iPower to replace its legacy SCADA master station, which lets it keep older L&N RTUs and integrate them with newer NuLec reclosers in one SCADA solution.

Control room operator seated at a desk with several SCADA monitors

PowerNet Limited, based in Invercargill, New Zealand, is a joint venture company that manages the electricity reticulation networks of The Power Company Limited, Electricity Invercargill Limited, and OtagoNet Joint Venture. It upgraded its obsolete SCADA master station with iPower and distributes electricity to 64,000 rural, residential and industrial customers.

Electrical substation in desert hills with a sign reading Tombstone Substation

Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative (SSVEC) serves about 45,000 customers over 6500 sq. miles of SE Arizona, USA. The co-op added iPower to its iFIX SCADA system for fuller system control and record keeping.