AEP achieves greater demand response agility with OATI DERMS
American Electric Power’s (AEP) existing demand response (DR) system was built on an aging platform. The system modifications required to keep up with PJM’s ever-changing program requirements, such as the PJM emergency demand response programs, were challenging and took significant internal resources to manage. AEP knew they needed to invest in a more stable, comprehensive platform that could offer some customization and allow for future growth. With OATI’s demand response management system (DRMS) software, part of the OATI DERMS platform, AEP found that — and much more.
With OATI DERMS, AEP is able to:
- Monitor, control, schedule, and manage demand response programs and distributed energy resource assets
- Automatically create events that are called by PJM and notify customers impacted by the event via phone, SMS text messaging, and/or email
- Compute pricing information every day, based on AEP’s system load forecast, and publish reports on the expected prices