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DERMS journey · stage 4

For utilities ready to make DER management enterprise-wide: often one that runs a grid-facing DERMS for front-of-meter resources but has no management of the edge. OATI enterprise DERMS extends from meters to markets, uniting IT and OT operations and integrating directly with energy markets.

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STAGE 4

End-to-end DER management with DERMS

Going enterprise means consolidating data streams and workflows so every department is looking at one grid. It’s a job only an enterprise DERMS can do.

This stage covers the edge: the behind-the-meter solar, storage, EVs and customer programs growing on your system, brought onto the platform that already manages your grid-scale resources.

What to focus on now: uniting operational silos and orchestrating DERs at scale.

Grid and edge, inside one envelope

Dynamic operating envelopes move each site’s limits with feeder conditions, so more customer resources connect sooner and respond within what the network can carry.

Feeder headroomFixed, worst-case limitDynamic operating envelopeCapacity a fixed limit leaves unused

Front of meter

Grid-scale storageUtility solarFeeders and substations

Behind the meter

Rooftop solarHome batteriesEV chargingThermostats and water heaters

Illustration: one feeder, one day. Grid and edge on one platform.

Grid to edge, by team

Open a role for what going enterprise changes and the working detail behind it.

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For program managers: Extend what you have into an enterprise platform.

You already have a grid DERMS managing distribution-level resources, but the edge is a blank space. Behind-the-meter solar, storage, EV charging and customer programs are growing on your system, and nothing manages them the way your grid DERMS manages front-of-meter resources.

Going enterprise extends the platform you already trust to the full picture, grid and edge, rather than bolting on a separate edge tool that becomes tomorrow’s silo.

Technical depth

Behind-the-meter programs on the same platform: thermostats, batteries, EV charging, water heaters, building management systems and pumps.
Customers, aggregators and the utility linked in one program, with participation incentives settled on the same record.
Operating companies or subsidiaries each run their own programs in their own environment, with a corporate view across them.

For operators: Grid and edge, coordinated.

Behind-the-meter DERs are a growing factor on your feeders, but largely invisible from the control room. Going enterprise brings grid and edge into one operational view, so operators coordinate front-of-meter and behind-the-meter resources from one place, with the same DERMS-and-ADMS coordination they already rely on.

Technical depth

Dynamic operating envelopes: per-site import and export limits that move with feeder conditions, so customer resources respond within what the network can carry.
Flexible interconnection: more DERs connected sooner, managed to the envelope rather than to a fixed, worst-case limit.
Grid services from customer resources: fast frequency response, scheduled load shifting and capacity reduction, as Hawaiian Electric runs today.

For market teams: Unlock the capacity behind the meter.

Your grid DERMS shows front-of-meter resources, but the fastest-growing pool of flexible capacity is behind the meter, in customer-sited solar, batteries and EVs you don’t yet manage. Going enterprise brings them onto the same platform, aggregated into market-eligible virtual power plants alongside your grid-scale assets.

Technical depth

VPPs from aggregators, suppliers and wholesale operations on one platform, with offers, dispatch and settlement in one place.
Aggregators working with OATI can provide wholesale grid services and increase revenue to the asset owner.
From meters to markets: meter data, measurement and market settlement on the same record.

For executives: Close the blind spot behind the meter.

Your operators coordinate the grid-scale resources your DERMS manages, but behind-the-meter DERs are largely invisible, even as they grow into a real factor on your feeders. That blind spot is manageable today and a reliability risk tomorrow. Going enterprise extends situational awareness all the way to the grid edge.

Technical depth

One view from grid-scale assets to customer devices, for reliability and for load growth planning.
IT and OT on one platform: customer, meter, network and market data where every department sees one grid.
Ready for AI: Genie DER Availability™ and Genie Forecasting™ work on top of OATI DERMS.

And now, AI

AI GENIE™ FOR DISTRIBUTION

Intelligence on top of the platform you run

You’ve reached the final stage of the DERMS journey, though the growth potential is endless. With grid and edge on one platform, you’re in position to put AI-native energy intelligence to work across the organization.

Genie DER Availability™ and Genie Forecasting™ work on top of OATI DERMS, so operators see what the fleet can deliver before they dispatch it, and what it delivered after.

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INTERVIEW · TVA

Inside TVA’s DERMS journey

A new wave of commercial and industrial growth has disrupted the traditionally flat load in TVA’s region. TVA moved one of the nation’s largest demand response portfolios from an in-house system to OATI DERMS for the scale and automation that growth demands.

Proof from utilities on this stage

Hawaiian Electric buys grid services from customer-owned DERs

Hawaiian Electric wanted grid services from resources its customers own: hybrid solar and battery systems, building management systems, water heaters, water pumps and more.

Solution

OATI is the sole supplier for Hawaiian Electric’s first Grid Services Purchase Agreement, linking the utility, OATI and end-use customers to deliver fast frequency response, capacity build and capacity reduction. In 2025 five University of Hawaii Community College campuses added 2.5 MW on Oahu, bringing the program to 10 MW.

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