DER Management from Smarter Grid Solutions and Integral Analytics

Smarter Grid Solutions and Integral Analytics today announced the launch of their joint Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) proposition, supporting Utilities to deliver least cost grid operations using DER. The combined solution brings together DERMS functions of forecasting, optimization and DER integration, allowing Utilities to underpin their rate case submissions, fulfil their regulatory requirements, improve efficiencies and enable customer choice.

The collaboration allows, for the first time, Integral Analytics’ productized, nodal intelligence to be used directly by Smarter Grid Solutions’ real-time control systems, ensuring that least cost grid operation projections are realized in day to day operations. The proposition has broad application across North America, and specifically meets the needs of the Distributed Systems Platforms (DSPs) being developed in New York state, and the DERMS-enabled systems planned in the Californian IOU’s DRPs.

“We have always understood the important link between investment planning, interconnection processing and grid operations” said Bob Currie, CTO and Co-Founder at Smarter Grid Solutions. “The combination of our products in this new way is a unique opportunity for our Utility customers to deliver planning strategies using DER directly into operations, without compromising on the safe and reliable operation of the system.”

Tom Osterhus, CEO of Integral Analytics, said “We are excited to team with Smarter Grid Solutions to deliver an integrated DERMS solution where distribution planning and circuit valuation methodologies merge to continually inform optimal DER dispatch and ensure reliable balance at the grid edge for all stakeholders. Utilities are demanding that grid intelligence be consistent for multiple purposes downstream to the nodal asset level ... our partnership delivers on this objective.”

Smarter Grid Solutions will be presenting the collaborative solution to interested Utilities at this year’s DistribuTECH conference, in Orlando, 9-11th February, booth #1829.