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Coping with renewable generation 

The decarbonization of the energy system and the high penetration of DERs quickly transform the landscape of distribution grids. Utilities are now confronting the most transformational period of change. The pervasive adoption of DERs is driving the need to re-evaluate how they manage their network infrastructure. Our CGI OpenGrid DERMS solution helps you address these changes, allowing your business to: 

  • Enable static and dynamic aggregation of disparate DERs
  • Develop, optimize and dispatch coordinated schedules to meet forecast demand
  • Encourage the development of new business models and revenue streams
  • Support the complete customer engagement, settlement, and billing life cycle.
     

Accelerating holistic orchestration and transactive energy  

To accommodate the growing expectations of prosumers participating in the energy ecosystem, CGI OpenGrid DERMS is built on a network model to help utilities orchestrate and regulate their DERs for enhanced reliability, network efficiency, and grid performance.  

Connect 

Independently-owned DERs are registered, validated, and connected with the existing network assets to provide a holistic view of power production and consumption across the service territory. 

Monitor 

Performance of connected DERs is monitored and key data such as power, Volt-Var, and voltage are visualized and aggregated by the transformer and feeder. 

Dispatch 

Dispatch of constraints and commands can be performed manually, scheduled based on date and time, automatically triggered based on events, or imported from external systems. 

Schedule 

Priority scheduling of dispatches based on various allocation profiles that include fault proximity, connection agreement, financial goals to command control equitably, and curtailment dispatches across the available DERs.