DERMS case study: North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives

OATI DERM strategies

North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation (NCEMC), a generation and transmission electric cooperative supporting 26 electric cooperatives, needed a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) to manage and orchestrate demand response programs for each of its member cooperatives.

OATI DERMS allows NCEMC to: 

  • Create demand response programs from an array of DERs, including microgrids, solar, and smart thermostats
  • Gain visibility into the performance of DER assets
  • Dispatch programs form a single dashboard
  • And more…
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