Siemens and EnergyHub join forces for next generation DER management
SAN DIEGO - Accelarated DER growth to challenge state of the art grid management
Siemens recently announced that they are partnering with EnergyHub and that they will be expanding their ecosystem of partners for their grid software business. EnergyHub should provide a top-tier grid-edge management solution, which combines its DERMS platform with turnkey program management to enable utilities to scale grid-edge flexibility. EnergyHub controls all classes of DERMs including thermostats, electric vehicles, energy storage, and solar inverters. The company works with over 60 North American utilities to manage more than 1.3 GW of flexible capacity. Siemens is a leading provider of grid planning, operations, and maintenance software and should bringg extensive power systems and grid control domain expertise to the partnership.
According to both companies, they would interface their complementary solutions to empower utilities to move towards a holistic and scalable end-to-end next-generation DER management solution. This means that utilities should have better DER visibility, forecasting, and management. This in turn should enable them to better plan, operate, and maintain an increasingly DER-centric grid in the future by breaking down silos across utilities.
"Utilities have to re-think how to manage power grids because DERs will continue to grow significantly over the next decade. Knowing about DER contributions to our power grids is very important to shift loads to periods when there is less stress on the grid. Siemens and EnergyHub will be strategically cooperating on complementary portfolio elements for a next generation DER management by combining Siemens' network expertise with EnergyHub's proven grid-edge capabilities. This partnership will enable utilities to reach net-zero by leveraging DERs as a non-wire alternative solution such as investments in hardware. Ultimately, this will enable utilities to unlock unprecedented levels of DER flexibility and resilience of the power grid," said Sabine Erlinghagen, CEO of Grid Software at Siemens.
Source: Siemens
