DERMS suite

Boost Your DER Strategy With a DERMS Built for Modern Utilities

Virtual Peaker’s Shift DERMS suite manages residential electric demand. It applies machine learning and real-time control to internet-enabled appliances to reduce demand while minimizing the negative impact on the residential customer. Shift connects in-home smart devices to run residential demand response programs that leverage distributed energy resources (DERs) to reduce cost and peak load.

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Utility Portal

The Virtual Peaker utility portal enables you to manage the complete lifecycle of all DERs.

With Virtual Peaker’s Shift DERMS utility portal, you can:

Own and manage the entire lifecycle of your DER programs all in one platform.
Easily log into the portal to approve customer enrollments, call DR events, and view reporting on events.
Communicate with customers about demand response events and device statuses with easy-to-use email and/or SMS.
Deploy demand response programs with the click of a button.
Add new control strategies, device types, and manufacturers when you’re ready and as your demand response (DR) programs grow.
Use a secure, intuitive portal that allows for user-based permissions to be configured by role and need.

Real-Time Data Reporting

Control costs and the impact of transmission peaks with real-time data and reporting.

Our Shift DERMS Suite reporting enables you to:

Take control of your DER strategy with real-time data down to the individual device level.
Measure and verify DER events with customizable data visualizations – by device type, event timelines, and more.
Gain insights from normalized and translated data originating from multiple manufacturers and technologies – from thermostats, batteries, EV chargers, and EV telematics.
Utilize built-in device-level analytics for determining energy consumption for DR events for both pre-event and post-event.
Create reports for event performance, device data, customer enrollments, and more!
Track demand response dispatched events at participating homes.
Customizable and reliable baselining and reporting are built into the reporting interface.

Easy Enrollment

With an integrated enrollment management framework built directly into the utility interface, you can easily drive and manage demand response program enrollment.

With Virtual Peaker’s Shift DERMS platform suite enrollment features, you:

Can permit individual device enrollment directly with the customer or on their behalf.
Easily support unique customer enrollment journeys and program designs.
Can apply machine learning and real-time control to minimize the cost and impact of TOU rates on customers.
Can easily add on the Customer Engagement suite at any time to further drive engagement with your program using a branded microsite and easy-to-use enrollment form.

SMUD Case Study

Learn how Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is optimizing hot water heater efficiency without sacrificing customer comfort and value using the Virtual Peaker platform and Shift’s real-time control system.

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"With our ability to make household loads grid-ready, combined with Virtual Peaker’s cloud-based residential energy demand response platform, we are providing our utility customers the intelligent power management solutions needed for an increasingly electrified world."

Andrew Bouthilet VP, Offer Management and Marketing Eaton

"Through our partnership with Virtual Peaker, we’re able to deliver smart charging solutions to new markets, benefiting the utilities and their customers."

Giovanni Bertolino Head of e-Mobility Enel X North America

"I think we're now more formal in how we go about program development as a result of working with Virtual Peaker. They helped us put a structure around the steps that have to happen for us to get up and running. We need there to be device integration, we need to make sure that the billing all works. Before, we were a little bit loose. And I think having them to be a check on us, means that we're a little more operational in how we work."

Graham Turk Innovation Strategist Green Mountain Power

Virtual Peaker makes DER aggregation and optimization easy and profitable.

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Boost Your DER Strategy With a DERMS Built for Modern Utilities

The Virtual Peaker utility portal enables you to manage the complete lifecycle of all DERs.

Control costs and the impact of transmission peaks with real-time data and reporting.

With an integrated enrollment management framework built directly into the utility interface, you can easily drive and manage demand response program enrollment.

SMUD Case Study

See What All the Buzz is About

Virtual Peaker makes DER aggregation and optimization easy and profitable.

4 Things to Consider When Launching a Demand Response Program

Marketing Channels and When to Use Them for Your Demand Response Program Recruitment

5 Things to Think About Before Launching a Demand Response Program

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