ProsumerGrid
ProsumerGrid provides a proprietary software platform and analytical services for simulating, planning, and optimizing distributed energy resources (DERs) across transmission, distribution, and microgrid systems. The platform combines high-fidelity grid models with multi-objective optimization to address cost, resiliency, and emissions while considering physical grid constraints and uncertainty scenarios. Its Grid+DER Planning Studio™ has supported complex studies including grid redesign, hosting capacity analysis, and microgrid design for utilities and energy providers.
- Energy
- Clean Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Software Only
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Massive amounts of distributed energy resources (DERs) are being added to electric grids, yet traditional planning tools do not adequately account for the physical constraints of transmission, distribution, and microgrid systems. Utilities and energy providers struggle to optimize resource portfolios when facing uncertainty scenarios and multiple competing objectives such as cost, resiliency, and emissions, leading to suboptimal investments and grid integration challenges.
Solution
ProsumerGrid provides a proprietary software platform and analytical services that combine high-fidelity grid and DER models with sophisticated optimization algorithms to simulate and plan resource portfolios across transmission, distribution, and microgrid systems. The platform determines optimal long-term capacity planning, short-term DER operations, and DER hosting capacity while simultaneously considering physical grid constraints, uncertainty scenarios, and multiple objectives. Analytical services cover use cases including non-wires alternatives analysis, energy storage grid services valuation, microgrid DER planning, and DER locational value analysis. The Grid+DER Planning Studio™ has been used for complex studies involving grid redesign, hosting capacity, energy scheduling, and DER implementations.
Target Audience
Primary customers are electric utilities, energy providers, DER companies, regulators, and researchers who need advanced analytical tools for planning and integrating distributed energy resources into transmission, distribution, and microgrid systems.
Features
- Integrated generation-transmission-distribution-microgrid planning and simulation in a single platform
- Optimization-based DER hosting capacity analysis that determines maximum safe interconnection levels for solar PV, wind, energy storage, EVs, and combinations thereof
- Multi-objective optimization considering cost, resiliency, and emissions simultaneously with uncertainty scenario analysis
- Short-term optimal DER operation simulation at minute-to-hourly granularity, including solar PV curtailment, storage scheduling, EV management, and demand response
- Analytical services for non-wires alternatives, DER locational value, energy storage grid services valuation, and microgrid optimal DER planning
- DER Request for Proposals (RFP) optimal design to help utilities solicit DER alternatives that address identified system needs