Reviewed for technical accuracy February 19, 2021
DERMS on AWS for Utilities 1
Streaming and batch data is collected from various data
Run your Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) on AWS to meet increasing demand to monitor, sources, such as customer and grid data, meter data,
DER measurements, market prices, and weather.
forecast, and control your wind, solar, battery, and emerging “green” DERs. Deploy a scalable solution to effectively Integration to DERMS is via one or more of AWS File
match generation with load, improve grid resiliency and reliability. Use the right compute, data store, and analytics tools Transfer, IoT, streaming, or API services.
to gain operational and customer insights, and run proactive and meaningful analytics using machine learning (ML).
Vendor DERMS applications can be deployed using
2 different compute services, such as Amazon EC2, AWS
Lambda, or AWS container services. Their associated
transactional and operational data sets can be optimally
Data Sources Ingress/Egress 1 DERMS Application 2 stored in purpose-built AWS databases based on their
Run DERMS applications (available from AWS Partners) on data structure and access patterns.
Multiple tools
Slow-changing Data AWS’ highly scalable and reliable compute and database
support diverse data
services A DERMS may control DER assets directly, via IoT or APIs
types and flows DERMS Application
(3a) or make recommendations to the ADMS/SCADA,
3 and let it execute the actual control (3b). ADMS and
DER asset data Customer other systems integrate with DERMS to ensure a
demographic balanced grid using application integration services such
data AWS Storage Compute Container Database as Amazon API Gateway, Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS or
Gateway Services Services Services
Real time data Amazon EventBridge.
DER asset data via Automate ETL processes such as transform and
IoT or SCADA Data Lake 4 Analytics 5 deduplication with AWS Glue. Use Amazon S3 as low
DER Assets Transform and store data Business insights from
AWS IoT
for processing various sources
4 cost storage for raw and curated data, with archival
Services copies for retention and compliance. Your Data Lake
3a serves as the single source of truth for downstream
analytics and ML work. AWS Glue can also automate the
Other live data feeds process of data schema discovery and metadata tagging
e.g. Weather, Energy
Markets, etc. to create a metadata catalog that makes all data visible
AWS Glue Amazon S3 Amazon Amazon
Amazon Kinesis
Redshift QuickSight and searchable.
3b Data Lake
Query petabytes of structured and semi-structured data
Customer and 3rd
party energy SCADA, &/or API & Events Machine Learning across your data warehouse and your data lake using
management ADMS 6 5 standard SQL with Amazon Redshift. Create and publish
applications provide Connect with Variety of AI/ML models
interactive dashboards with Amazon QuickSight, which
comprehensive standard patterns and augment analytics
grid management Partner &/or can be accessed from any device, and embedded into
Customer’s ML your apps and websites.
Models
Harness the power of pre-trained AI models, such as
Console
Amazon Forecast, to detect grid anomalies, forecast
Application Integration Application
Amazon Amazon 6 energy usage, and predict equipment failures. Build,
Integration
Forecast SageMaker
train and deploy your own ML model quickly with
Amazon SageMaker.
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