Under the initiative, DROMS will enable BPA to schedule and automate events and see actual load shed during events.
Established in 1937, BPA is responsible for marketing wholesale electricity to municipal utilities, co-operatives, investor-owned utilities, Native American tribal utilities and other customers.
In all, BPA serves 142 firm power customers, which in turn provide power to millions of consumers and businesses in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, western Montana and small parts of California, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. Approximately 30 percent of the power used in the region comes from BPA.
As the U.S. Department of Energy’s largest power marketing administration, BPA required a robust standards-based automated demand response system. AutoGrid’s DROMS application will allow BPA to plan and execute demand response events, helping BPA achieve its mission to provide its customers with reliable and affordable electricity.
BPA’s DROMS implementation features a unified view across all programs and participants that gets updated in real-time with information on load shed and other aspects of operations, providing BPA program managers and system operators an intuitive interface to review and manage all their DR resources.
"BPA’s program is one of the most innovative uses of automated demand response in the nation involving stringent real-time processing requirements," said Amit Narayan, founder & CEO at AutoGrid. "We are pleased to be serving BPA on their next generation needs of creating a truly open standards-based dispatch grade DR system."
Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Austin Energy, E.ON, PSEG-LI, Hawaii Electric, Southern California Edison, Florida Power & Light, and the City of Palo Alto Utilities are using AutoGrid’s big data analytics technology to improve the reliability and productivity of their operations.
AutoGrid technology is also embedded in software products from leading vendors, such as Schneider Electric, NTT Data, and Silver Spring Networks.
