Telvent adds smart-grid clients from Florida to China

Efficiency-focused IT solutions provider Telvent will engineer, design and implement a SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system to help Progress Energy Florida improve its services with real-time information from the field.

Progress Energy Florida (PEF) provides electricity to more than 1.6 million customers.

Telvent says its SCADA system, OASyS DNA, will help PEF improve reliability, make faster operational decisions, increase distribution efficiency and enhance customer satisfaction. It installed a similar system 13 years ago for PEF’s sister company, Progress Energy Carolina.

Earlier this week, Telvent was also chosen to implement its OASyS DNA system for Zunyi Electrical Power Supply Company of Guizhou. A utility managed by Guizhou Power, Zunyi Power serves around 800,000 customers. It aims to use the SCADA system to accurately collect and analyze real-time data on grid operations. That data will be used to support the planning, operation and analysis of the current distribution system, and to help curb energy loss through power load management, rather than through generating additional energy.