California public power utility Turlock Irrigation District has chosen OATI’s webSmartEnergy Distributed Energy Resource Management System to enable commercial load control and residential smart thermostat programs with next-generation technology, OATI reported on July 1.
The OATI DERMS platform provides TID “with a robust common platform for both the C&I and residential behind-the-meter (BTM) programs from a “single pane of glass” to streamline operations,” OATI said.
As a certified aggregation service provider for Renew Home, Copeland Sensi, ecobee and Honeywell smart thermostat programs, the OATI DERMS will pass through and coordinate all program marketing services provided by each OEM for TID.
The platform’s webSmartView C&I customer engagement portal allows customers to update contact information, manage who receives event notifications, receive and confirm receipt of demand response event notifications, schedule and exclude outages from resource availability, and review event performance.
“These features support a level of transparency between the utility and their customers that promotes customer program commitment,” OATI said.
TID continues to utilize OATI’s trading and transmission solutions, including webTrader® for trade capture and scheduling and webTrans® for reliability transaction management. With this latest portfolio addition, TID expands their long term partnership.
The webSmartEnergy® DERMS is hosted on the OATI Cloud, “a key driver for organizations responsible for critical infrastructure and services, featuring NERC/CIP-compliant data centers,” OATI said.
The platform can control both DR and DER assets and programs under a “single pane of glass,” such as commercial load, behind-the-meter and front-of-the-meter battery energy storage, microgrids, smart thermostats, and managed electric vehicle charging.
The modularity of OATI’s enterprise DERMS platform allows TID to scale use cases over time, OATI said.
