One DERMS. End-to-end.
Stage 4: The utility DERMS journey
This stage of the DERMS journey is for utilities ready to make DER management enterprise-wide. Often this is a utility that already runs a grid-facing DERMS for front-of-meter resources but has no management of the edge— the behind-the-meter solar, storage, EVs, and customer programs growing on its system.
OATI’s enterprise DERMS is the only smart grid platform that extends from meters to markets, uniting IT and OT operations and directly integrating into energy markets.
STAGE 4
End-to-end
DER management
with DERMS
Going enterprise means consolidating data streams and workflows to ensure all departments are looking at one grid. It’s a job only an enterprise DERMS can do.
What to focus on now: uniting operational silos and orchestrating DERs at scale.
For program managers: Extend what you have into an enterprise platform.
You’ve already got 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 right now nothing manages them the way your grid DERMS manages front-of-meter resources.
Going enterprise means extending the platform you already trust to cover the full picture — grid and edge, front-of-meter and behind-the-meter — rather than bolting on a separate edge tool that becomes tomorrow’s silo. The focus here is planning that expansion as a natural extension of what you already run, not a second system to integrate.
For operators: One grid, one view.
Right now your operators may be watching distributed resources through several disconnected tools, each with its own interface and its own blind spots. That fragmentation is tolerable at pilot scale and genuinely risky as programs grow.
Unifying DER management gives the control room a single coordinated picture — DERs, DERMS, and ADMS working together — so operators can see and dispatch the whole distributed fleet from one place instead of assembling the picture in their heads. The emphasis here is the operational integration that makes scaling safe rather than chaotic.
For market teams: Unlock the capacity behind the meter.
Your grid DERMS gives you visibility into 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 those edge resources onto the same platform, so they can be aggregated into market-eligible virtual power plants alongside your grid-scale assets. For your team, that’s an entirely new class of dispatchable, monetizable capacity coming into play. The focus here is what becomes possible when the edge stops being invisible to your market strategy.
For executives: Close the blind spot behind the meter.
Your operators can see and coordinate the grid-scale resources your DERMS manages, but behind-the-meter DERs are largely invisible from the control room, even as they grow into a real factor on your feeders. That blind spot is manageable today and a reliability risk tomorrow.
Going enterprise brings grid and edge into a single operational view, so operators coordinate the full DER landscape — front-of-meter and behind-the-meter — from one place, with the same DERMS-and-ADMS coordination they already rely on. The focus here is extending situational awareness all the way to the grid edge.
And now, AI.
You’ve reached the final stage of the DERMS journey though, admittedly, growth potential is endless. Nonetheless, you’re now in prime position to explore how energy-native AI can improve efficiency throughout the organization.
Resources for this stage
of the DERMS journey.
AI in the Control Room
Our AI in the Control Room whitepaper gives you an inside look at the tasks OATI AI Genie is assisting in today and the data it was built on.
Enterprise DERMS for optimizing Virtual Power Plants
A properly designed and implemented enterprise DERMS addresses both grid reliability operations and commercial aspects of DERs.
Real-time DER management with ‘dynamic envelopes’
OATI power systems experts examine the roles that dynamic operating envelopes and flexible interconnections will play in the future grid— made possible by an end-to-end, enterprise DERMS.
Take the leap
No matter where you are on the utility DERMS journey, OATI’s power systems experts can help you execute your vision. Fill out the form below to request a demo of OATI’s enterprise DERMS.