Bandera Electric Cooperative, in collaboration with the Lower Colorado River Authority, recently announced that its aggregated distributed energy resource program, known as a virtual power plant, successfully qualified for participation in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas wholesale power market.
ERCOT’s ADER program is an initiative to integrate and manage distributed energy resources as aggregated units in the electricity market.
BEC’s Apolloware platform is the first qualified ADER capable of managing multiple aggregations of third-party devices, it said.
While the initial qualification focused on energy storage systems from Enphase Energy, Inc., the Apolloware platform’s open-access design allows seamless integration with any manufacturer’s devices, the cooperative said.
“This flexibility is crucial for managing the diverse range of DERs that BEC oversees, including thermostats, solar systems, energy storage batteries, generators, and other devices that consume or produce electricity behind the meter,” it said.
