This report by Peter Asmus of Guidehouse Insights was released in December 2020. Distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS) run algorithms frequently and quickly to keep the distribution grid in balance. This report defines six key aspects of enterprise DERMS, and their relationship to Advance Distribution Management Systems (ADMS), Virtual Power Plants (VPP) and Distributed Energy Resources (DER).
Key words: cloud & data analytics, market sizing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), energy management, smart grid