Portland General Electric, an integrated electric utility headquartered in Portland, Ore., serves more than 755,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Seeing advantages in design and construction savings, the utility wanted to incorporate digital bus technology in as many areas as possible at Port Westward last April. Both Foundation fieldbus and PROFIBUS are used significantly throughout the balance of plant systems. Another reason behind the decision was simply the opportunity to try new technology on a new plant since the technology has been proven in many other industries, just not in the power industry.
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