Case Study: Intermountain Power Service Corporation avoids $1M/day outages and validates DCS controls with AVEVA DYNSIM‑Power

DYNSIM Power Simulation Software Validates Controls and Trains Operators on new DCS

Intermountain Power Service Corporation (IPSC), the coal‑fired plant near Delta, Utah producing about 13 million MWh a year, needed to replace an outdated simulator as part of a DCS upgrade. With only a four‑week outage window and potential revenue losses exceeding $1,000,000 per day, IPSC sought a solution to validate new control logic, train operators on the new DCS interface, and avoid unplanned downtime — choosing AVEVA’s DYNSIM Power simulation (SIM4ME environment) to meet those goals.

AVEVA implemented the DYNSIM Power virtual simulator that ran the actual DCS software in emulated controllers, enabling thorough control checkout and hands‑on operator training before startup. AVEVA’s solution helped identify and fix critical control errors pre‑startup, put controls in automatic within 24 hours, avoided any unplanned generation loss during the upgrade, protected the plant’s 13 million MWh annual output, and now serves as an ongoing controls test bed and operator‑training platform.

Intermountain Power Service Corporation

Bill Morgan

Project Manager on DCS Project