FAQ

Date: April 2020

This discussion helps create some clarity and better understanding of "DERMS" by exploring the ways in which multiple utilities that have deployed a DERMS go about defining DER management functionality; what system architecture they have selected to deliver these functions; and the programs and market models that are being supported or anticipated.

Understand how these systems are integrated with, or are otherwise a part of, a larger grid modernization strategy and implementation. These anticipated outcomes will be to portray a comprehensive set of DER management functions and depict a variety of ways to identify which functions are needed and how they are obtained.

Finally, learn whether a single system can achieve all DERMS functions, or if DERMS is really a combination of multiple systems working together, and what systems should be deployed to deliver these functions.

Speakers:
Rich Barone, TRC
Michael McMaster, APS
Angie Eide, Hawaiian Electric Company
Brian Doyle, Xcel Energy
Ajit Renjit, EPRI