WHAT'S NEW

November 25, 2011, Panama City, Panama and New York, NY -- Today the Transmission Company of Panama (ETESA) announced the SCADA/EMS project award to the ABB unit from Sugar Land, TX (read more). This is an important milestone of the project SCADA/EMS Upgrade for the National Dispatch Center of ETESA (Consultoría SCADA/EMS en relación al proyecto de Renovación Tecnológica del Centro Nacional de Despacho) we've been selected in August 2011 by ETESA to assist the Centro Nacional de Despacho with our consulting services. So, luckily, now, both the CND and ABB project teams and the consultant (J) will be able to take a brief rest and enjoy a couple of weeks of well-deserved holidays, and then the project will resume at full speed in mid January 2012 with the Statement of Work (read more...).

October 28, 2011, New York, NY -- Today we're once again happy to report mission accomplished: we just shipped to the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) the Final Report and the Executive Summary of the Nebraska Public Power District Energy Management System Upgrade Strategy Assessment study. Started on June 20, 2011, the project was conducted on a fast pace and was completed on schedule and within the full scope of objectives and activities agreed upon (read more...).

July 27, 2011, Detroit, MI -- The Control Centers Working Group of the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Power System Operations sponsored the Control Center Issues session on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at the PES GM2011 in Detroit, MI. Chaired and organized by Edward J. Dobrowolski, Standards Coordinator, NERC, the 2011 Control Center Issues session was well attended, encompassed paper presentations by SCADA/EMS industry experts, and was followed by a Control Center Roundtable that allowed those in attendance to address a broad range of contemporary issues pertinent to Control Centers in the context of today's utility landscape (read more...).

July 11, 2011, New York, NY -- The 4th of July fireworks in New York have come and gone and now the talk over here is not if, but when and how often to exchange the air conditioned office with the ocean breeze on the Atlantic shore in Long Island. Yet, although our Fresh Meadows, NY office is only 25 minutes away from Jones Beach J we can't enjoy the hot sand and the fresh sea water because we're as busy as ever. One month ago we started a SCADA/EMS strategy assessment project with a mid-western US utility -- and last week we've been selected to provide assistance to a Latin-American utility in conjunction with their SCADA/EMS replacement project. Sorry for those who are always "hungry for news", but as per our policy, we will not make any detailed announcement during the early stages of these undertakings; once they've been successfully completed, though, and if the clients would agree, we will gladly provide project data sheets just as we've always done in the past (read more...).

April 6, 2011, New York, NY and San Jose, Costa Rica -- Energy Consulting International, Inc., a New York based electric power engineering firm specializing in computer engineering and utility information systems, including SCADA/EMS/DMS, Substation Automation Systems, Market Systems and information technologies on which the Smart Grids of today are predicated, together with Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), announced the successful completion of the first task release (Orden de Trabajo 001) of the project Consulting Services for the Design, Commissioning and Installation of the Primary-Backup SCADA/EMS Solution (Servicios para la Asesoría Proceso de Contratación de Diseño y Equipamiento SCADA/EMS). The project execution and supervision are under the responsibility of the Centro Nacional de Control de Energía with funds from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) (read more...).

March 21, 2011, Phoenix, AZ  -- The Power Engineering Society (PES) of the IEEE hosted the panel session Half a Century of Computer Methods in Power System Analysis, Planning and Operations. A tribute to the Memory of Glenn W. Stagg and Jorge Dopazo within the frame of the Power System Computation and Expo 2011 (PSCE2011). Chaired and organized by Professor Arun G. Phadke (Virginia Tech University, Blackburn, VA) with assistance from Dr. Savu C. Savulescu (Energy Consulting International, Inc., New York, NY) and Dr. Sudhir Virmani (EPIC Engineering, Inc., Cupertino, CA), this memorable event offered a unique opportunity to be in the same room and at the same time with many technical experts whose work and accomplishments during the last couple of decades have shaped the current network analysis and SCADA/EMS landscape in the utility industry. Slide shows summarizing panel papers that are now part of the PSCE2011 Proceedings, informal presentations, friendly chats and photo opportunities kept us busy for the entire afternoon and will be remembered with great emotion for years to come (read more...)

February 16, 2011, Hanoi, Vietnam -- The Deputy Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Mr. Hoang Trung Hai, was briefed by Dr. Savu C. Savulescu from ECI about the current status of SCADA/EMS and IT facilities at Vietnam Electricity (EVN) and the proposed concept for the IT Infrastructure of the Vietnam Competitive Generation Market (VCGM). The meeting revealed Mr. Hai's fine understanding of electricity markets and deep knowledge of the IT landscape in Vietnam and concluded that the target for starting VCGM operations in 2011 can be met only by adhering to the recommendations of the Final Report of the project IT Infrastructure for the Vietnam Competitive Generation Market: Assessment, Design and Roadmap for Migration (read more...). Among the meeting attendees were Mr. , former General Director of the Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam (ERAV), and Mr. Tran Anh Thai, General Director of Vietnam Power Resource Partners Corporation (Vietnam PRP) and CEO and Technical Leader of Applied Technical Systems Co., Ltd. (ATS). ECI and Vietnam PRP cooperated in the past on several flagship consulting assignments, including the Support Information Technology and Database System Design and Training for the Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam (ERAV) (read more...).

July 19, 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam -- The Power Market Department of Vietnam Electricity (EVN) hosted the workshop "IT Infrastructure for the Vietnam Competitive Generation Market: Assessment, Design and Roadmap for Migration". Chaired by Mr. Nguyen Manh Hung, Vice-President of EVN, the seminar was attended by representatives of the Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam (ERAV), National Load Dispatch Center (NLDC), Electric Power Trading Company (EPTC), Vietnam Electricity Information Technology Center (EVN.IT), National Power Transmission Corporation (NPT). Experts from the distribution companies, power plants and Power Engineering Consulting Companies of EVN were also present. The workshop aimed at disseminating the results of the just-completed project IT Infrastructure for the Vietnam Competitive Generation Market: Assessment, Design and Roadmap for Migration and collecting feedback and opinions from the key players in the Vietnamese Electricity Market. After the opening remarks contributed by Mr. Hung, Dr. Savu C. Savulescu, in capacity of Project Manager and Lead Technical Expert, conducted a detailed presentation of the project, which entailed the: review and assessment of the current situation and development of a conceptual Overall Information Architecture (OIA) for the Vietnam Competitive Generation Market (VCGM); design of the VCGM OIA as per the roadmap stipulated by the Prime Minister in the 26/01/2006 Decision No. 26/2006/QD-TTg; development of a migration plan; and the preparation of the Final Report (read more...).