OATI to Provide Smart Energy Solutions to KCP&L for DOE Proposal
Open Access Technology International Inc. (OATI) has proposed to provide webSmartEnergy to Kansas City Power and Light (KPC&L), a subsidiary of the Great Plains Energy Services, Inc., (GPES) in their application for U.S. Department of Energy's Smart Grid Demonstrations funds, DE-FOA-0000036, supplying OATI webSmartEnergy Distributed Resource Management System (webSmartEnergy DRMS) to be integrated into Kansas City, Missouri's Green Impact Zone initiative.
(Vocus/PRWEB ) September 10, 2009 -- Open Access Technology International Inc. (OATI) has proposed to provide webSmartEnergy to Kansas City Power and Light (KPC&L), a subsidiary of the Great Plains Energy Services, Inc., (GPES) in their application for U.S. Department of Energy's Smart Grid Demonstrations funds, DE-FOA-0000036, supplying OATI webSmartEnergy Distributed Resource Management System (webSmartEnergy DRMS) to be integrated into Kansas City, Missouri's Green Impact Zone initiative. OATI's webSmartEnergy DRMS provides KCP&L the platform and applications needed to improve power system reliability, economics and environmental compliance by integrating Demand Response (DR) and Distributed Energy Resources (DER) with power system and energy market operations. It brings together key functional components including customer and resource management, DR and DER dispatch and control, distribution grid monitoring and congestion management, and integration with system operations. Built upon decades of power system experience and proven software components, webSmartEnergy DRMS provides a unique combination of capabilities to address the current and the emerging Smart Grid requirements, including high-penetration DR/DER including plug-in electric vehicles, provision of ancillary services from demand-side resources for balancing variable generation, environmental compliance tracking, and distribution congestion management.
webSmartEnergy DRMS is designed with scalability for large deployments, is built on a modern web platform in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment, and supports industry standards for enterprise and business-to-business interoperability. It is also designed with capabilities for incremental deployment, while leveraging existing utility legacy systems and data, smart metering and communications capabilities. webSmartEnergy DRMS adheres to stringent cyber security and information privacy measures, and is fully compliant with NERC CIP standards.
OATI (www.oati.com) is the industry's leading provider of Energy Trading and Risk Management, Transmission Scheduling, Congestion Management, Market Management and Smart Grid products and services, with headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota; branch offices in San Mateo, California and Houston, Texas. For more information please contact sales (at) oati (dot) net.
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