DERMS Solution to Power the Energy Transition Announced by GE Digital

GE Digital has announced the first solution resulting from its acquisition of Opus One Solutions to power the energy transition.  Opus One DERMS is designed to be an end-to-end modular Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) that can help utilities on their Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) journey to keep the grid safer and more secure and resilient, while helping to enable greater energy affordability and customer participation in power generation/contribution. The software is designed to provide additional intelligence in operations, economics, and markets in a modular solution that can help to enable grid operators to connect, see, control, and better optimize DERs from technical and economic standpoints, while helping utilities to provide cleaner and more reliable and affordable energy to their customers.

Opus One DERMS is designed to grow with a utility’s needs on a use-case by use-case, feeder by feeder, and substation by substation basis. It helps utilities to better optimize the increasing number of DERs while enabling Non-Wires Alternatives (NWA) and facilitating flexibility and transactive markets for Distributed System Operators (DSO). This modular software is designed to be vendor agnostic and provide capabilities that support use cases based on a utility’s DER adoption maturity. Utilities can select the modules they need depending on where they are in their DERs’ journey, or how DER-enabled their Advanced Distributed Management System (ADMS) is. Modules can also be integrated with existing ADMS or be separate based upon use case requirements. The standards-based architecture is designed to allow for flexible deployment.

Opus One DERMS is designed to better accommodate the high growth of DERs, helping to ensure greater grid reliability and resiliency, as well as utilities to better comply with regulations. The solution can go beyond basic dispatch and control to help forecast, anticipate, and resolve system violations while better optimizing DERs and grid performance across multiple time frames, ranging from minutes to weeks ahead and beyond. Opus One DERMS can also act as an aggregator of aggregators for utilities by supplying a “single pane of glass” consolidating visibility and control across fleets of DERs for more streamlined DER and grid management. It helps to enable a very fine granular view when solving a violation on a single distribution feeder or an aggregated view when solving a violation on a primary substation.