Full Title: Integrated DER: Orchestrating the Grid’s Last Mile
Author(s): Peter Asmus, Mackinnon Lawrence, Alex Metz, Pritil Gunjan, Roberto Rodriguez Labastida, Scott Shepard, Eric Woods
Publisher(s): Guidehouse
Publication Date: September 19, 2020
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Description (excerpt):
Navigating the energy transformation requires new approaches to integrating distributed energy resources (DER) into the grid and onsite energy networks.
Integrated DER, iDER, is one of seven emerging energy platforms identified in Guidehouse’s Energy Cloud 4.0 vision of a more sustainable, highly digitized, and dynamic energy system. For energy providers, iDER represents a platform for ambitious ventures into system orchestration and value creation in the future energy system.
A fundamental rethink of strategy and planning, as well as organization and system operations that embrace DER networks and their underlying technologies, will be needed for a successful transformation. The result will be a system better attuned to evolving demand and customer needs and more compatible with a rapidly changing policy and regulatory environment.