Utilities are leveraging DERMS to monitor, coordinate, and optimize a growing mix of distributed energy resources—improving grid flexibility, reliability, and customer participation.

As distributed energy resources (DERs) proliferate across the grid, utilities need advanced tools to manage their growing complexity. Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) give utilities the visibility, control, and intelligence needed to integrate and optimize DERs across both transmission and distribution systems. This topic explores how DERMS supports real-time grid operations, enhances forecasting and load flexibility, and enables grid services from customer and community energy assets. Sessions will highlight DERMS architectures, utility implementation strategies, case studies and technical analysis. 

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Beyond Technology: Aligning People, Processes, and Plans for Successful DERMS Implementation, with AEP, ComEd, National Grid and PG&E

February 03, 2026

Whether you’re in early DERMS planning or deep into deployment, this session offers utility-tested insights for building a DER-ready organization that can scale with the future grid.

What it Takes for Behind the Meter Control: A Joint Effort Between ADMS, DERMS, and Next Gen AMI

February 03, 2026

This presentation will share SMUD's experience, give some insight into their future roadmap, and feature a discussion about an ongoing 2030.5 integration with a community of BTM Energy Storage.

Beyond Technology: Aligning People, Processes, and Plans for Successful DERMS Implementation, with AEP, ComEd, National Grid and PG&E

February 03, 2026

Whether you’re in early DERMS planning or deep into deployment, this session offers utility-tested insights for building a DER-ready organization that can scale with the future grid.

DERMS educational opportunities

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11:00 AM
  1. 28AB
    50 mins
    ComEd’s Voltage Management Demonstration (VMD) project is a targeted initiative focused on enhancing grid performance under contingency conditions in areas with high DER penetration. It leverages the …
10:15 AM
  1. Reliability & Resiliency - Booth #UL741
    30 mins
    This session will allow the audience to hear from both an investor-owned and a municipal utility about their plans to improve reliability and resilience through the deployment of advanced grid control …
11:00 AM
  1. 6F
    50 mins
    As utilities accelerate their transition to advanced grid technologies, the distribution network model has emerged as the critical foundation for enabling ADMS and DERMS functionality. This session, l …
  2. 31AB
    50 mins
    Southern California Edison (SCE) is modernizing grid operations to meet California’s escalating reliability, resiliency, and decarbonization demands while preparing for millions of DERs and accelerate …
  3. 6E
    50 mins
    The increased adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in California has put pressure on distribution grids. Vehicle-grid-integration strategies, including EV managed charging, turn EVs into flexible grid …
  4. Grid Edge Intelligence - Booth #4845
    30 mins
    Integrating distributed energy resources (DERs) can be complex—but also full of opportunity. In this session, SMUD shares how it’s scaling smarter at the grid edge through grid-aware devices, DERMS, d …
1:00 PM
  1. 6E
    50 mins
    SMUD is deploying Next Gen AMI and integrating Distributed Intelligence capabilities with their ADMS/DERMS system to bring grid edge level monitoring and controls into real-time operations. The new fu …
2:00 PM
  1. 29AB
    50 mins
    Energy storage technologies are rapidly emerging as pivotal assets in the evolving distribution ecosystem. Their inherent flexibility offers significant opportunities for enhancing grid reliability, i …
2:45 PM
  1. Innovative and Emerging Tech - Booth #143
    30 mins
    A technical yet practical session on how digital twin intelligence, Dynamic Line Rating, Vegetation Management and predictive analytics are enabling utilities to unlock more capacity, reduce outages a …
9:00 AM
  1. 31AB
    50 mins
    As utility microgrids integrate more renewable energy generation, it is important to assess how inverter-based resources (IBRs) contribute to microgrid stability and resilience. Microgrids with high l …
  2. 28CD
    50 mins
    As utilities accelerate grid modernization to meet evolving reliability, efficiency, and decarbonization goals, Volt-VAR Optimization (VVO) has emerged as a cornerstone technology. This presentation e …
10:00 AM
  1. 28CD
    50 mins
    Distributed energy resources (DERs) have been empowering customers to achieve independence and sustainability while reducing their costs of energy. However, the large integration of DERs has been a ma …
11:00 AM
  1. 6E
    50 mins
    As we step into the era of electrification, utilities are facing the exciting challenge of exponential load growth over the next decade. Maximizing the utilization of existing grid infrastructure is a …
2:00 PM
  1. 32AB
    50 mins
    As utilities advance DERMS adoption to manage distributed energy resources, the panel will spotlight how utilities are embracing digital technologies to accelerate transformation and deliver sustainab …
3:00 PM
  1. 6E
    50 mins
    As DER adoption accelerates and frameworks like FERC Order 2222 reshape participation pathways, both ISOs and distribution utilities must rethink how wholesale markets coordinate with increasingly dyn …
  2. 31AB
    50 mins
    DER data is not new to Con Edison—it has been a persistent and complex challenge since the team first embarked on centralizing DER information three years ago through an MVP. Now, equipped with years …
1:00 PM
  1. 26AB
    50 mins
    In response to the substantial increase in electricity demand driven by EV adoption, vehicle and home electrification, and the continued growth of distributed solar and behind-the-meter systems, PG&E …
2:00 PM
  1. 29AB
    50 mins
    BC Hydro was evaluating a large set of investments in Operating Technology to support the distribution side of their business. They realized that this was going to involve more than the control room. …