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DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OPERATOR
Distributed Energy Resources bring new challenges and opportunities for utility organizations. Establishing the correct organizational structure to align with new business services and strategies is imperative to success and GridIntellect is here to help.
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SMART INFRASTRUCTURE CONSULTING
With new products and innovations entering the market, our technology experts are armed with the latest knowledge to ensure successful implementation of critical infrastructure technologies.
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COMMUNITY AND ENERGY RESILIENCE
With the number and severity of storms increasing, our team can help you formulate and optimize its plans for hardening critical infrastructure systems, supporting social group needs, providing basic services, reducing recovery times from disasters, and creating more resilient communities as part of their normal planning activities.
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UTILITY AND ISO DECARBONIZATION STRATEGY
Turn Distributed Energy Resource integration into an opportunity instead of a problem. Our decarbonization workshop series establishes a vision for DER visibility and situational awareness, identifies technology needs, organizational changes, new business services, and unlocks the power of modern EnergyIoT architectures and digitalization strategies.
DECARBONIZATION WORKSHOP SERIES
GridIntellect employees are thought leaders in decarbonization strategies, technologies, and implementations. We have designed a series of workshops to help utilities and ISOs navigate their way through the complex issues brought on through decarbonization and turn them into new opportunities for revenue, profit, and success. The workshop series provides utilities and ISOs with a practical approach to defining:
- Vision and strategy for Distributed Energy Resource (DER) visibility and situational awareness granularity, including a traceable architectural framework with drivers and rationale for strategic initiatives
- Real time technology enhancement needs for operational systems (Communication, Distribution Automation (DA), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS), and DER Management Systems (DERMS))
- Organizational skills requirements that include New Business Services and Distribution System Operator model optimization
- Scalability to support thousands, hundreds of thousands (or more) distributed assets using modern technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and digitalization of assets
GRID ARCHITECTURE SERVICES
As the authors of Energy Central’s EnergyIoT Conceptual Architecture series, our team are pioneers in proposing modern, distributed, cloud-based solutions that leverage virtualization, containerization, orchestration and other DevOps capabilities to coordinate Distributed Energy Resources (DER) on the grid. We recognize that our current centralized, system-centric, siloed architecture simply WILL NOT WORK as more and more DER enters our electricity networks.
In addition, our team members are certified Grid Architects from the Department of Defense, having been trained in laminar architectural constructs by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OPERATOR (DSO)
Our founder developed the white paper, Distribution System Operator Models for Utility Stakeholders while at Black & Veatch. We provide consulting services and workshops to assist utilities in defining their optimal DSO model and developing a DSO vision and strategy to maximize the opportunities a decentralized electric power grid ecosystem can provide. This strategy extends to New Business Services that yield new revenue opportunities and efficiencies for the utility, its customers, and potentially new customers never before thought of.