Delivering grid services from demand-side resources
How can utilities utilize demand-side resources for flexible grid services? Trust the industry’s most-deployed DERMS.
The increasing amount of renewable generation and distributed energy resources (DERs), coupled with the retirement of conventional thermal generation, is increasing the need for frequency response and ancillary services to maintain grid reliability and power quality. Demand-side resources and dispatchable DERs can support flexible utility grid services with the help of a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS).
In this solution brief, you’ll learn:
- How flexible end-use loads, along with other demand-side assets, such as energy storage and solar PV, can be aggregated into Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) to provide a variety of ancillary grid services using OATI DERMS
- The key functionality necessary for supplying fast responding frequency response; regulating reserves; operating, supplemental, and load-following reserves; and balancing energy and capacity
- How to match the technical capabilities of end-use assets to different types of grid services, in compliance with the NERC balancing area technical and operational requirements for primary, secondary, tertiary, and time controls