OATI pioneered the first DERMS in 2009. We remain the industry’s most-deployed DERMS, enabling flexible DER management for more than 250 utilities.
Every utility is on this journey at a different stage. Open one to see the work it covers for program managers, operators, market teams and executives.
For program managers
A virtual power plant starts with people: enrolling customers and aggregators, proving they performed and paying them correctly. Start with a single thermostat program and add programs on the same platform.
For operators
OATI DERMS brings ADMS, AMI and IoT/SCADA data together with the DER model, the GIS topology and the customer program, so operators see behind-the-meter and front-of-meter resources where they sit on the grid.
For operators
Field assets that can’t natively speak to utility systems become controllable through protocol conversion, edge computing and secure communication, so a battery, a sensor or a feeder device answers like any other resource.
For program managers and market teams
A configurable baseline and settlement engine scales to thousands of computations in minutes and adapts when a tariff changes. Con Edison makes 100,000 calculations every 15 minutes on the demand response system it developed with OATI.
For market teams and executives
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.
In an episode of the documentary series Threads of Connectivity, distributed by NatGeo, OATI Chief Technology Officer Erik Amundson explains how a DERMS lets utilities control and manage a growing number of distributed energy resources while keeping the grid reliable and affordable for customers.
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.
DERMS in and of itself allows for visibility and coordination of resources. Whether that’s for your portfolio, distribution operations, or entry into the market, you need to have the coordination to do all of that. We were searching for a vendor that could embrace that complexity. OATI DERMS is integral to our success in our Distribution-Operator Initiative.Senior Vice President of Power Delivery, NCEMC
We’re leveraging those [tech] partnerships to say, ‘Okay, this is what we can do with traditional infrastructure, how can we speed up the timeline, and is it a cost adder or is it a cost saver at the end of the day? How do we streamline the process whether we’re talking to Google or Amazon, or anybody at the end of the day so we can enable this for growth in the region?Senior Consultant of Strategic Initiatives, TVA
Battery prices are still high enough that you need multiple use cases for the same battery to extract the most value out of it.Dairyland Power, Manager of Innovation & Efficient Electrification
PARTNERSHIPS
Through a partnership between OATI and Landis+Gyr, two grid modernization initiatives, distributed energy resource management and grid-edge intelligence, unite as one.
OATI and Landis+Gyr are pairing real-time enterprise DERMS with AMI 2.0, turning the meter from a billing endpoint into an operational asset.
Two starting points: Oklahoma Gas & Electric on building a DERMS that grows with the business case, and TVA on moving a large demand response portfolio onto OATI DERMS.
Interview · Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Oklahoma Gas & Electric had a vision for innovation that required a robust DERMS. But the business cases of today don’t always match those to come. OATI DERMS offered the modularity to get started and grow.
Interview · TVA
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.