Smarter Grid Solutions helps utilities utilize DERs to maintain safe & reliable grid infrastructure while reducing costs for their customers.
Over $400 Million
Grid Upgrade Investments Avoided
521 MW
Clean Energy Asset Capacity Managed by SGS DERMS
283,338 tCO2e
Annual Emissions Avoided by DER
Flexible Interconnections for Avangrid
Full DERMS Implementation for UKPN
A recent market analysis ranked this DERMS roll-out program “among the most advanced in the world” (Wood MacKenzie).
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PROBLEMS
Lack of visibility and control over DER assets
Technical DER integration challenges
Capacity Constraints preventing new applications
High Infrastructure Costs
Constantly changing requirements
Unpredictable DER growth trends
SOLUTION
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DER Device Management, Monitoring & Control
Grid Capacity Management
Flexible DG/DER Interconnection
Non-Wires Alternatives, Flexibility Services & Demand Response
New DSO Applications
Grid Data Analytics, Operational Forecasting & Optimization
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The unique technologies in Strata Grid deliver fast, secure, autonomous, and fail-safe capabilities. This ensures that hosting capacity, load management, flexibility services or flexible interconnections applications comply with operational, security and commercial limits and maximize the benefits of DER and flexibility in distribution operations.
Strata Grid is the only DERMS software to combine grid and market optimization with real-time control and a rich set of data and analytics opportunities.
Strata Grid enables customers to maximise the financial benefit from ‘look ahead’ optimization techniques while ensuring real-time service delivery and reliability
The highest value customer features include:
- Fast-acting, automated dispatch and threshold-based control
- Front-of-the-meter (FTM), behind-the-meter (BTM) and aggregated DER control
- Forecasting and grid analytics
- Economic optimization with automated scheduling/dispatch
- Automated configuration from online analytics
- ADMS and other utility system integration
- Fail-to-safe controls including DER automation at the grid edge
- Utility and 3rd party asset integration.
Drew Smith
Drew Smith is Executive, Business Development and Sales, North America at Smarter Grid Solutions. Drew has worked in all aspects of the renewable energy industry including finance, product, and business development. He is passionate about helping utilities, developers, and independent power producers add renewable energy to the energy mix. He has a Master in Public Policy from Georgetown University and a Bachelor in Accounting & Finance from the University of Kentucky.