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Why Your Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) Supports Multiple Utility Teams
…the right people get the right access as needed, which can be managed quickly and efficiently by IT personnel to mitigate internal cybersecurity challenges. The right DERMS will allow overlapping…
BlogThe Past, Present, & Future of Battery Storage
…manipulating and managing the potential of a stored electrochemical charge. Now, a few common storage types are: Compressed air energy storage – A battery that uses compressed air to store…
BlogTypes of Messaging For Your Demand Response Program
…while providing low rates and reliable service. Fortunately, with more DERs in every community, program managers have a variety of demand flexibility options from conservation efforts like EV managed charging…
BlogRecap: The Virtual Peaker Empower Innovation Forum 2022
…accomplish in helping our utility partners existing or soon-to-be to stop. After setup on Tuesday and a unique opening reception at a fascinating local speakeasy that evening, we kicked off…
BlogWhat Are Non-Wires Alternatives?
…to better plot where and when it’s happening. In many cases, enhancing grid resiliency may come with high infrastructure costs like replacing or updating transformers and lines. Fortunately, non-wires alternatives…
Blog3 Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS) Models
…to the continued viability of your conservation programs. Research indicates that heatwaves are five times more common now than the world would be without climate change. And that number is…
BlogThe Difference Between Demand Response & Energy Efficiency
…benefits to utility companies, including improved grid reliability, cost savings, market efficiency, and regulatory compliance. What is Demand Response? Demand response is a conservation approach that provides utility companies the…
BlogHow Utility Customer Engagement Helps
…SMUD could access real-time, cloud-based technology designed to adjust water heaters that create maximum efficiency without giving up comfort; customers are often unaware that the program is active, leading to…
BlogHow Topline Demand Control Supports Regulations
…Control are super-powered demand management. When utilities send controls to DERs to meet specific load-shedding needs, they dispatch the commands and hope that the demand is managed sufficiently. Through optimization…
BlogTopline Demand Control, Virtual Power Plants, & DERMS (Oh My!)
For roughly a century, the mechanics and language of the utility remained relatively—an important qualifier in this context—static, and for good reason: it worked. Serving the public was comparatively easy…
BlogGaining Strategic Value From Your EV Charging Programs
…your time-of-use rates, specifically around commercial and public charging stations, and what percentage of use your residential charging program opportunities will constitute. If you’ve moved beyond the passive evaluation stage…
BlogPump the Brakes: Electric Vehicles Aren’t Going Anywhere!
…not feature combustion engines, they are still likely powered by fossil fuels like natural gas because that is one very common way that utilities generate electricity. Still, researchers at MIT…