Powering Utilities, DERs, & Microgrids 

WhyGrene helps customers reduce costs, enhance resilience, and unlock new revenue streams.

Utilities: Helping plan for and manage distributed resources and VPPs

Grene™ helps utilities connect better with their customers by integrating DERs, reducing infrastructure costs, and managing energy supply/demand through a secure, standards-based platform.
  • Planning: Use digital twin simulations to inform grid planning and DER interconnection studies.
  • Demand Management: Forecast energy production/consumption then optimize charging and load shedding to minimize peak demand.
  • Edge DERMS: Turn DERs into dispatchable assets for demand response, frequency regulation, and virtual power plants (VPPs).
Customer example: WhyGrene partnered with Tacoma Power to simulate EV fleet charging strategies for 65 electric school buses, modeling 20 years of cost savings and Vehicle to everything (V2X) revenue opportunity.

Distributed Energy Resources (DERs): Minimize charging costs and maximize ROI

Grene enables DER owners and OEMs to improve operations, reduce energy costs, and unlock new revenue streams through forecasting, optimization, and aggregation.
  • Types Supported: EVs, EVSE, batteries, solar, generators, hydrogen fuel cells (HFC), smart thermostats, water heaters, and more. 
  • Operate: Forecast DER usage and optimize charge/discharge schedules to align with time-of-use rates and real-time grid conditions. 
  • Virtual Power Plants: Aggregate and dispatch DERs for grid services including demand response, frequency regulation, and V2X. 
Customer example: A Fortune 500 auto OEM engaged WhyGrene to simulate location based V2X scenarios for consumer EVs, paving the way for optimal national V2X deployment.

Microgrids:  Increase reliability, lower costs, and add new revenue streams

Grene helps microgrid developers right-size systems, operate efficiently, and monetize assets by providing grid services.
  • Plan: Simulate DER scenarios to assess cost-benefit tradeoffs, ensure emergency operations, and maximize ROI. 
  • Operate: Forecast and optimize power flows in real time using market signals, weather, and site-specific usage to lower costs and improve efficiency. 
  • Grid Services: Integrate microgrids for demand response, frequency regulation, and other utility programs to earn revenue and support grid stability. 
Customer example: WhyGrene’s simulation platform was used to model microgrid performance for a college campus during islanded emergency events and evaluate revenue from demand response participation.

The Grene Edge DERMS: A flexible, scalable solution for energy management

The Grene Edge DERMS is a flexible, AI-driven platform enabling you to plan, manage, and dispatch any DER type. We help customers reduce energy costs, provide backup power, optimize asset use, participate in utility programs, and more. The Grene Edge DERMS is easy to deploy and configure in the cloud or locally and is built with the highest security standards.