Utilities, governments, industries, and consumers are increasingly embracing renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass, resulting in significant investments in research, development, and infrastructure. As a result, renewable energy capacity is growing exponentially creating the need for innovative digital solutions to help manage and scale the integration and control of renewables into a quickly modernizing grid. Additionally, the proliferation and variability of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), such as rooftop solar, batteries, Electric Vehicles, as well as large-scale renewables can cause complex challenges for power generation, transmission, and distribution companies. Navigating these challenges and leveraging the opportunities effectively requires sophisticated Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) and Generation Management System (GMS) solutions.

AspenTech OSI offers an array of sophisticated solutions to enable these industries to intelligently integrate, visualize, forecast, and control their renewable power operations. Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) caters to small-scale power generation operations (<10MW) of transmission and distribution utilities, as well as commercial and industrial users. Whereas the Generation Management System (GMS) suite large-scale power generation operations (10MW – 500 MW) of utilities, state agencies, independent power producers and generation companies. The renewable energy management suite of solutions provide:

• Accelerated net zero journeys and decarbonation goals

• Improved energy security, grid reliability and operational efficiency

• Maximized financial opportunities and portfolio risk mitigation via market participation with Virtual Power Plants (VPPs)

• Streamlined operations management with the establishment of a centralized renewables control center and generation fleet management

• Integration and management of renewables, bulk assets and distributed energy resources in real time with flexible, extensible platform

• Grid security analysis and unified user interface with EMS/GMS integration

The renewable energy management solutions are built on its industry leading monarch™ platform, a highly scalable, real-time solution that has been supporting the SCADA needs of generation, transmission, distribution, gas, water and communication utilities around the world for more than 30 years.