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What is a Distributed Energy Resource (DER)?
Distributed energy resources (DERs) are small-scale, decentralized power and storage technologies like rooftop solar, batteries, and smart home devices like […]
How To Develop (& Scale) Water Heater Demand Flexibility Programs
Electricity demand is climbing faster than it has in decades, driven by electrification, AI data centers, extreme weather, and a […]
What is EV Telematics?
Globally, electric vehicles account for around 25% of all new car sales; those very same electric vehicles provide challenges and […]
Substation-Level Storage: When to Build vs. When to Orchestrate BTM Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)
Rising electric demand is forcing utilities to make a capital-intensive decision: pour money into new infrastructure like substations, transformers, and […]
What is Peak Shaving?
U.S. electricity demand is growing faster than it has in generations. The EIA forecasts electricity use will climb 1% in […]
BESS & the Duck Curve: Leveraging DERs to Manage Peaks
The duck curve, the duck-shaped chart showing the difference between electric-demand and the amount of available photovoltaic solar available throughout […]
What Are Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS)?
A distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) is the software layer that lets a utility see, group, and dispatch thousands […]
How to Future-Proof Your Virtual Power Plant (VPP)
An aggregation of distributed energy resources (DERs), virtual power plants (VPPs) have become a critical component of U.S. load flexibility. […]
What is Demand Response?
Demand response is a more than 40-year old demand flexibility strategy that involves shifting demand to off-peak periods of usage. […]
Smart Water Heaters & Demand Flexibility: What Utilities Should Know Before Launching a Program
Water heaters are quietly becoming one of the most valuable tools in a utility’s demand flexibility toolkit. Because they store […]
What is a Virtual Power Plant?
A virtual power plant (VPP) is a network of distributed energy resources (DERs) including rooftop solar, home batteries, electric vehicles, […]
What is Firm Load Shedding?
Firm load shedding is the deliberate, controlled disconnection of “firm” customer load, which is the electricity service utilities are contractually […]
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