Turlock Irrigation District unlocks grid flexibility with OATI’s next-generation DERMS

Turlock Irrigation District will utilize OATI’s industry-leading DERMS platform to coordinate and control residential and commercial demand response programs, enhancing system flexibility and reliability.

Minneapolis, MN: July 01, 2025

Turlock Irrigation District (TID) has joined a growing rank of public power providers by selecting OATI’s webSmartEnergy Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) to enable commercial load control and residential smart thermostat programs with next-generation technology.

The OATI DERMS platform provides TID with a robust common platform for both the C&I and residential behind-the-meter (BTM) programs from a “single pane of glass” to streamline operations. As a certified aggregation service provider for Renew Home, Copeland Sensi, ecobee and Honeywell smart thermostat programs, the OATI DERMS will pass through and coordinate all program marketing services provided by each OEM for TID. The platform’s webSmartView C&I customer engagement portal allows customers to update contact info, manage who receives event notifications, receive and confirm receipt of demand response event notifications, schedule and exclude outages from resource availability, and review event performance. These features support a level of transparency between the utility and their customers that promotes customer program commitment.

TID continues to utilize OATI’s trading and transmission solutions, including webTrader^® for trade capture and scheduling and webTrans^® for reliability transaction management. With  this latest portfolio addition, TID expands their long term partnership with OATI.

“OATI is honored to support Turlock Irrigation District’s innovation journey, and we’re thrilled to grow alongside yet another trusted partner,” said Sasan Mokhtari, OATI’s president and CEO. “Utilities large and small require a flexible, dynamic power grid in order to meet customer needs and keep pace with the energy transition. We are confident that OATI’s secure, reliable, and scalable DERMS will unlock endless opportunities for TID customers.”

Like all OATI tools, webSmartEnergy^® DERMS is hosted on the OATI Cloud, a key driver for organizations responsible for critical infrastructure and services, featuring NERC/CIP-compliant data centers. The platform can control both DR and DER assets and programs under a “single pane of glass,” such as commercial load, behind-the-meter and front-of-the-meter battery energy storage, microgrids, smart thermostats, and managed electric vehicle charging. The modularity of OATI’s enterprise DERMS platform allows TID to scale use cases over time.

While the versatility of DERMS has made it the utility industry’s most coveted tool in recent years, not all platforms are created equal. OATI developed DERMS that works by collaborating directly with utilities over the past 16 years to develop a solution grounded by power systems engineering. To date, more than 225 investor-owned utilities, generation and transmission cooperatives, distribution cooperatives, and municipalities leverage an OATI webSmartEnergy^® DERMS.

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About the Turlock Irrigation District (TID)

Established in 1887, the Turlock Irrigation District (TID) was the first irrigation district in the state. Today it is one of only four in California that also provides electric retail energy directly to homes, farms, and businesses. TID delivers irrigation water through over 250 miles of a gravity-fed canal system that irrigates approximately 150,000 acres of farmland. TID owns and operates an integrated and diverse electric generation, transmission and distribution system that provides power to a population of 240,000 within a 662 square-mile area. With a drive towards innovation, TID has been a leader in new initiatives and data-driven practices to provide value to its customers.