DERMS can help you solve capacity constraints and unlock value from DERs

 

Flexible Interconnections

As utilities are challenged to meet new clean energy goals, grid reinforcement becomes crucial to maintain safe limits.

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Graphic Source: AvanGrid

With equipment productions sometimes year behind, and connection queues of developers growing, DERMS can provide relief. 

Our Strata Grid software monitors the network and DER state in real-time and delivers threshold-based DER set-point control to flex the DER export or import, securing the local grid assets within their limits. These features have been shown to maximize the DER interconnection headroom and minimize the operational curtailment, typically increasing hosting capacity and grid access by 50-100%. Our solutions have already saved our Distribution Utility customers more than $300 million in grid upgrade investment deferrals from renewable DER interconnections

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modular
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15 years of experience.
Easily integrates to utility system
Controls tens of thousands of DERs
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Smarter Grid Solutions’ Utility DERMS product Strata Grid is the only DERMS software on the market to provide flexible interconnections in real time.  

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Our Flexible Interconnection Solutions Are Proven.
Increases hosting capacity 50-100%
Saves $millions in upgrades
Reduces Interconnections timelines by months/years
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Strata Grid enables customers to maximize their financial benefit from ‘look ahead’ optimization techniques while ensuring real-time service delivery and reliability.
Fast Deployment Timeline
  • Unlike ADMS, Strata Grid is not limited by a GIS model to get started, which allows utilities to begin their DERMS implementation sooner. 
  • Smarter Grid Solutions has years of experience integrating into other OT or IT systems if the use case requires it. 
Modular, Flexible, and Scalable

  • This unique approach allows Smarter Grid Solutions to deliver only the system the utility needs, meeting them where they are. 

  • DER challenges are evolving and therefore utilities need flexibility in their DERMS to adjust and adapt to their growing needs over time.

Linearized Network Model approach

  • As opposed to requiring a fully cleaned up GIS model, the SGS approach only needs a subset of the data within a network model to run the real-time algorithms to control DERs effectively.

Preventative, Corrective & Failsafe Control Layers
This three-layer control approach is a differentiator in the industry. 

Preventative: Leverage forecasting and optimization engines to best predict and schedule DERs accordingly. 

Corrective: SGS controls DERs in real-time, adapting to actual grid conditions. This is done in seconds, not minutes.

Failsafe: Unique to other DERMS vendors, SGS has grid edge control capabilities that provide fail-safe DER operation for critical infrastructure.
SGS's Strata Grid, the next-generation Utility DERMS product, stands alone as the only DERMS software that integrates grid and market optimization with real-time control. Learn more about how Strata Grid seamlessly links various systems to provide comprehensive solutions by downloading the brochure. 
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Brian DeLucia

Director of Utility Solutions, Eastern Region

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Brian DeLucia is a Director of Utility Solutions at Smarter Grid Solutions. Brian has over 10 years experience in the utility industry with a background in product and business development specific to power grid optimization. He is a graduate from Ohio State University. Having spent many years working at a utility, he has developed a passion for helping those companies adopt new technologies for future reliability.