Is IT Ready for Them?: Future Energy & Distribution Management Systems [In My View]

Discusses the market and development of power distribution energy resource systems (DERs). A huge game changer for utilities and possibly market operators will be the need to gain visibility and potentially control of hundreds of thousands of DERs. DERs can, and will, include photovoltaic (PV) generation, electric vehicles (EVs), demand response (DR), combined heat and power, storage, small-scale wind, and other technologies. Some might say that this is the province of a distributed energy management system (DERMS), but a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system with applications by any other name is an energy management system (EMS)/ distribution management system (DMS)/ DERMS or even a battery energy management system.