![]() More advanced efforts include using algorithms to optimize the interaction of grid controls, generators, distributed energy assets and controllable loads. These effects can range from voltage fluctuations on local circuits with lots of solar panels or heavy new loads like EV chargers, to regionwide imbalances between electricity demand and the rise and fall of clean energy production.Īn important application of Opus One’s software is helping utilities plan for the growth of clean energy and distributed energy like rooftop solar and EVs, Wong said. These models can then be used to analyze the ever-more-complex power flows caused by intermittent renewable energy and unpredictable distributed energy. ![]() After it’s deployed, the first task the company’s GridOS platform undertakes is digitally modeling the utility’s distribution grid networks, Opus One CEO Joshua Wong said in an interview. ![]() Over the past nine years, Opus One has become a key provider of the DERMS software in use by utilities in the states of California, Hawaii, Illinois and New York, as well as in Ontario, Canada and the U.K. Opus One’s digital model of the distribution grid The term DERMS can apply to everything from software that aggregates lots of customers to bid energy flexibility into wholesale energy markets, to utility-facing applications designed to help keep low-voltage grids in balance. In recent years, these grid giants have added a new layer of software to their lexicon: the distributed energy resource management system, or DERMS. These companies’ key platforms include the advanced distribution management systems used by utility operations centers to manage low-voltage grid networks. GE Digital competes with the likes of Siemens, Hitachi Energy, Schneider Electric and Emerson/OSI in the utility software space. “At the very top of that list is keeping the grid in balance.” Utilities “need a seamless, coordinated, integrated way to deal with these intermittent generation resources that we’ve never had to deal with in the past,” Jim Walsh, general manager of GE Digital’s grid software arm, told Canary Media. Utilities need software platforms that can handle today’s complex web of power flows. They weren’t built to track and manage the increasingly unpredictable and networked flows of power coming from these new technologies. But the grids of today were built to deliver power in one direction: from big power plants to customers.
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