Advanced Control Systems Delivers 25 Substation Controllers to Jordanian Electric Power Company

Purchase of new IEC-compliant units advances major international smart grid automation project

ATLANTA, GA, August 8, 2009—Advanced Control Systems, Inc. (ACS) has delivered 25 Connex™ 30 substation controllers to the Jordanian Electric Power Company (JEPCO) in Amman, Jordan. The purchase of the units advances a smart grid effort that began in 2000. This automation effort began with the implementation of a PRISM™ Distribution Management System from ACS included 35 substation controllers.

Efacec Advanced Control Systems Launches New Website

Easy navigation helps deliver answers fast in clean site reflecting Advanced Control Systems’ heritage and new Efacec Group identity

ATLANTA – March 23, 2010 — Efacec Advanced Control Systems, for 35 years a leader in utility advanced automation solutions, went live today with a new company website and a new web address. The changes reflect both Efacec ACS’ automation software pioneering legacy and their new, expanded resources as part of Portugal-based Efacec Group.

Efacec Advanced Control Systems Wraps Up 33rd Annual ACSessions Customer Conference
 

Industry’s most enduring customer gathering highlighted by new technology, training, and a trip to Efacec’s new power transformer plant near Savannah.

El Paso Electric Implements FASTapps™ from Efacec ACS as First Phase in Smart Grid Program .
 

Self-healing feeder technology will be used to automate key circuits
 

ATLANTA – June 9, 2010 — With the testing and commissioning phase successfully completed, El Paso Electric (EE) has added automated fault detection, isolation, and restoration capabilities to feeders in its Santa Teresa, NM service territory using the FASTapps™  feeder automation platform from Efacec Advanced Control Systems .

Advanced Control Systems Passes ISO New England DNP3 Conformance Tests

ATLANTA, GA, March 24, 2009—Advanced Control Systems, Inc. (ACS), a leading provider of smart grid automation and system solutions to electric utilities worldwide, announced that its Connex 30 substation manager has successfully passed the ISO New England DNP3 conformance testing. The Connex 30 meets all of the Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) specification requirements as a replacement for the obsolete Remote Intelligent Gateways (RIG) currently in use by ISO-NE market participants.

Advanced Control Systems Puts RIG Replacement into Production at Northeast Generation Services

Cutover to ACS’ Connex 30 solution marks a milestone as the first RIG replacement to go online in ISO-NE market

ATLANTA, GA, June 2, 2009—Advanced Control Systems, Inc. (ACS) and Northeast Generation Services (NGS) announced cutover of the first RIG replacement last week at NGS’ plant in Hartford, CT.  ACS worked closely with engineers at NGS, to deliver and install the customized solution on an accelerated schedule. Under new specifications for the exchange of data with its market participants, ISO-NE has mandated that all existing obsolete Remote Intelligent Gateway (RIG) devices be replaced by February 2010.

Advanced Control Systems Chosen to Deliver PRISM™ SCADA for City of Glendale

ATLANTA, GA, September 3, 2008—Advanced Control Systems, Inc. (ACS), a leading provider of smart grid automation and system solutions to global utilities, announced that it has recently been awarded a contract by the City of Glendale, CA to deliver its PRISM™ SCADA system to Glendale Water & Power (GWP), the city’s municipal utility.