Snohomish County Public Utility District (SnoPUD) and Doosan, a Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) software vendor, lacked visibility into the DERs within a microgrid in SnoPUD territory. The microgrid’s DERs include a battery, solar, and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) EV chargers. Doosan’s DERMS software, DERO, needed real-time data from the DERs and other grid resources, which in turn would provide SnoPUD situational awareness of the full microgrid system.
Without situational awareness of the microgrid and its DERs, as well as those of resources connected to SnoPUD’s electric grid, the teams were unable to make data-backed business and operational decisions, as well as scale the technology.