Open Access Technology International (OATI) and Landis+Gyr, a provider of integrated energy management solutions, announced they’ve signed a collaboration agreement aimed at helping utilities leverage demand-side assets into grid operations to enhance grid resiliency and capture decarbonization goals.
OATI’s webSmartEnergy enterprise DERMS interoperates “within the highest and widest reach of a utility,” OATI said, with a hierarchy of information exchanges and secure data integration across systems and operations from behind-the-meter-customer-owned assets and front-of-the-meter utility-owned assets to distribution and bulk power markets.
Landis+Gyr DERMS, Powered by OATI, combines OATI’s enterprise DERMS solution with Landis+Gyr’s connected grid edge solutions, from AMI grid edge sensors and other intelligent devices to DER orchestration.
“We are thrilled about the collaboration with Landis+Gyr, the highly respected worldwide industry leader,” said Sasan Mokhtari, president and CEO of OATI. “This solution offers utilities the option to have a fully integrated solution from behind the meter, using Landis+Gyr’s future-proofed grid edge solutions, all the way to the wholesale market. Enterprise DERMS fully enhances Grid Operations, and the coordinated solution will deliver the high-value grid modernization solution to orchestrate a cleaner and more resilient energy grid.”
“Our collaborative offering will complement Landis+Gyr’s comprehensive edge-to-enterprise portfolio and enable utilities to drive a resilient, reliable, smart, and sustainable grid, while at the same time empowering end consumers to manage energy better,” said Werner Lieberherr, CEO of Landis+Gyr. “We are very excited about combining the expertise of both our companies and people to ensure we deliver solutions that go well beyond next-gen technology, allowing us to expand our integrated grid edge intelligence solutions offering with OATI as a leading partner in energy management.”
Enterprise DERMs can directly manage, control, and dispatch select assets and programs while also incorporating one or multiple third-party aggregator DERMS assets and programs into one common system for streamlined operations. The enterprise DERMS is the single common point that interacts with aggregator DERMS, a grid DERMS, the wholesale market, and various legacy systems. It is the single source of validations and settlements across all aggregators and Curtailment Service Providers (CSPs).
“Utilities that understand the need to bridge commercial and grid operations tend to embrace an Enterprise DERMS solution,” Linda Stevens, OATI’s senior vice president of sales and chief strategy officer for smart grids and smart cities told POWERGRID International in a past interview. “But given prosumer behavior and buying power, a variety of DER types are becoming available and sometimes utilities want to cater to niche solutions that they perceive are better suited for particular asset types.”
