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PowerNet cut nuisance alarms by more than 50% in just a few months using AlarmWatch. In the first three months alone, chattering alarms dropped 55%, stale alarms fell 68%, and time spent in alarm flood conditions decreased 58%.

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Founded in 1937 by a group of farmers, Dakota Electric Association (DEA) is a member-owned, non-profit electric utility serving more than 95,000 members south of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Adding about 2,200 new members yearly, DEA upgraded its obsolete SCADA master station with Catapult Software's iPower to meet growing demand.

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

In phase 2 of its secondary distribution SCADA automation project, system integrator Lucy Switchgear worked with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to deliver a full turnkey solution across more than 50 automated sites in Kumasi, Ghana's second city, serving over 200,000 customers. The dual-redundant SCADA system is built on iPower for iFIX.

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

Flathead Electric Cooperative, a Montana electric co-op serving 62,000 customers, uses iPower SCADA to monitor and operate 14 of its 26 substations remotely from headquarters. The system helps dispatchers respond faster to outages.

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

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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 aging 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 6,500 sq. miles of SE Arizona, USA. As it moved into full system control, the co-op added Catapult Software's iPower to its GE iFIX SCADA system to improve control capability and record keeping.