Oncor Electric Delivery will use Greensmith software provider for its microgrid facility in Dallas, Texas.
Oncor’s advanced microgrid consists of a carport solar PV array, ground mount solar PV array, microturbine, diesel generators, gas reciprocating generator and battery storage unit. The Oncor microgrid shows how microgrids can perform while grid-tied and off-grid to provide continuous, reliable power—this is especially important in regions with severe storms and unpredictable weather conditions.
Greensmith’s software integrates all of Oncor’s microgrid assets and orchestrates performance of a variety of complex grid applications supporting power quality and energy availability. As energy storage systems are fully networked into a variety of distributed energy resources, including solar and other forms of local generation such as diesel, the software (GEMS) becomes the backbone of an intelligent distributed energy resource management system. Linked together, storage and distributed energy resources can address both supply and demand needs, as well as, supply select grid services.
“We chose Greensmith as a partner and software provider to help expand the functionality of our microgrid and enhance individual components and overall system reliability and performance,” said Michael Quinn, Vice President Strategy and Chief Technology Officer at Oncor.
“When you look beyond the sum of its parts, a network of distributed energy resources orchestrated by advanced energy storage and software, is precisely where the energy industry is heading,” said John Jung, Greensmith President and CEO. “Having successfully developed Greensmith’s multi-application grid software through hundreds of megawatts of system integration and installation experience on either side of the meter– our GEMS platform stands alone as the most proven software package available to energy storage operators. We are delighted to partner with Oncor given their track-record of innovation and are excited to leverage our deep technology experience to expand the capabilities of an existing microgrid without changing a single piece of hardware.”
The GEMS platform is a widely-deployed energy storage software solution globally, with a robust yet flexible feature functionality for grid-scale, behind-the-meter and microgrid storage control architecture.
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