AEP Use Case
American Electric Power’s (AEP) existing Demand Response (DR) system was built on an aging platform. The system modifications required to keep up with PJM’s ever-changing program requirements, such as the PJM Emergency DR programs, were challenging and took significant internal resources to manage. AEP knew they needed to invest in a more stable, comprehensive platform that could offer some customization and allow for future growth. With OATI’s Demand Response Management System (DRMS) software, webDistribute®, AEP found that — and much more.
With OATI webDistribute, AEP is able to:
- Monitor, control, schedule, and manage DR programs and Distributed Energy Resource assets
- Automatically create any events that are called by the PJM market and notify all customers impacted by the event via phone, SMS text messaging, and/or email
- Compute pricing information every day, based on AEP’s system load forecast, and publish reports on the expected prices