MISSISSAUGA, ON — March 6, 2012 — Survalent Technology, the most trusted provider of smart grid solutions for the control room, announced today that it has commissioned a new Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system Cornwall Electric.

Cornwall Electric supplies electricity to over 23,800 customers in the City of Cornwall, South Glengarry, South Stormont, and the Ontario portion of the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of FortisOntario, headquartered in Fort Erie with operations in distribution and transmission serving approximately 65,000 customers.

The new system features Survalent’s highly available, open-architecture system based on Windows Server 2008. It includes several of Survalent's open system applications, including: WorldView, SCADA Explorer, IED Wizard and Control Panel, SCADA Add-In, Command Sequencing, Remote Alarm Annunciation and Event Data Recording.

“We are pleased that Cornwall Electric (FortisOntario) has selected Survalent Technology to replace their existing SCADA system,” states Paul Stirpe, Vice President of Canadian Sales. “Cornwall is making several system upgrades to take advantage of smart grid technologies, as well as integrating their system back to the main FortisOntario control system, which is also a Survalent system.  The system offers an easy way to leverage the real time mission critical data from the field and share this information with other software applications to in order to make them more valuable.”

About Survalent Technology

Survalent Technology is the leading provider of real-time smart grid management systems for enabling visualization, optimization and improved operations for utilities. For over four decades, we have helped more than 400 utilities use operational data to increase reliability, efficiency and customer service. With our proven and reliable SCADA, Outage Management System (OMS), Distribution Management (DMS), Demand Response (DR), Distribution Automation (DA), and Substation Automation (SA) solutions, utilities transform data into actionable intelligence. We partner with utilities across the globe to create mission critical solutions that will achieve the promise of the Smart Grid. Learn more at www.survalent.com.

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