DERNetSoft
DERNetSoft accelerates the energy transition with AVEVA CONNECT
A major healthcare organization operating 1,200 buildings needed to significantly reduce its energy consumption. The proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs) from different suppliers, the lack of digitization and the lack of data standardization across several utility territories made this mission particularly difficult. DERNetSoft, a provider of energy management solutions, took up the challenge using AVEVA CONNECT platform services to build a unified platform. Cloud and on-premises data were integrated, enabling monitoring and analysis of solar arrays, fuel cells and other renewable energy sources. The benefits match the stakes: the customer has already saved several million dollars, with the potential for tens of millions more if all identified measures are implemented, and ensures its DER investments are properly sized.
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How does AVEVA CONNECT facilitate the management of distributed energy resources (DER)?
AVEVA CONNECT enables DERNetSoft to aggregate data from heterogeneous DERs, such as solar arrays, fuel cells and other renewable sources, on a unified platform. The cloud platform collects, standardizes and analyzes these data streams from different vendors across multiple utility service territories. This consolidation is essential to managing a distributed energy portfolio, identifying savings opportunities and ensuring that DER investments are properly sized to meet actual needs.
Why is a cloud approach well suited to multi-site energy management?
To manage the energy consumption of 1,200 geographically dispersed buildings, a cloud approach such as AVEVA CONNECT eliminates the complexity of local IT infrastructure at each site. Data is centralized in real time, accessible from anywhere and can be analyzed across the entire portfolio. This native cloud scalability is particularly well suited to organizations managing large real estate portfolios, such as healthcare groups facing growing ESG challenges.
What economic gains can an AVEVA energy management platform generate?
Thanks to AVEVA CONNECT deployed by DERNetSoft, the healthcare client has already saved several million dollars in energy costs and overproduction credits. Additional savings identified reach several tens of millions of dollars if all measures are implemented. Beyond the direct gains, the platform ensures DER investments are properly sized and opens the way to low-cost, high-impact opportunities, creating a virtuous circle between industrial and financial performance.
How can energy data be standardized across multiple utility territories?
Each utility territory imposes its own formats, rates and metering rules, which complicates the consolidation of energy data for a multi-site portfolio. AVEVA CONNECT acts as a cloud integration platform that normalizes incoming data and presents it in a unified repository. For DERNetSoft, this standardization is the key to comparing performance between sites, identifying rate anomalies and optimizing energy flows across a portfolio spread over several jurisdictions.
Why is integrating cloud and on-site data strategic for the energy transition?
The energy transition requires simultaneously managing local generation (DER, self-consumption), building consumption and interactions with the public grid. AVEVA CONNECT integrates cloud and on-site data into a single overview, allowing DERNetSoft to orchestrate these flows in real time. This digital transformation is essential for organizations with DER to maximize self-consumption, monetize overproduction and concretely demonstrate their decarbonization pathway.