National Power, the largest generating company to emerge from privatisation of the UK Central Electricity Generating Board, has placed a UKP2.25m contract with Scicon Industry for a computerised energy management system: National Power’s Energy Management Centre will be in Swindon, and its role is to ensure that National Power meets its supply obligations, and to interface with the National Grid Company; the energy management system is based on two DEC VAX 6320 computers under VMS and providing 60Gb of storage; networking will be handled by DECnet communications software, and data will be administered by Oracle’s relational database and bespoke software from Scicon; four dedicated IBM PS/2s will collect remote data, and redundant parts of DEC/SNA gateways, DECrouter 2000s, and facsimile machines will provide communications to external systems.
