Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN) contracted Open Systems International (OSI) to supply a new SCADA and generation management system (GMS) based on OSI’s monarch (Multi-platform Open Network ARCHitecture) platform. The new monarch system for MEAN is set to include OSI’s next-generation, .NET-based graphical user interface (GUI); advanced SCADA functionality; advanced alarm management system; real-time and historical trending; automatic generation control and dispatch; energy market control algorithm; and market operations system software products.