Where utilities compare ADMS and DERMS implementation, and integrate distributed and inverter-based resources into grid operations.
DER and inverter-based resources are arriving faster than integration practice, and the control systems have to keep up. This is the room where members compare ADMS and DERMS implementation experience with each other directly.
A subcommittee of the Power Delivery Committee, Grid as a Platform addresses the technical and operational challenges of integrating distributed energy and inverter-based resources of every size – from small residential systems to large utility-scale resources – into the grid. (Formerly the DER Committee.)
DER integration, distribution planning, and grid modernization specialists.
Meets in person twice a year, plus monthly virtual sessions.
Fall meeting October 13 to 14, 2026 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Ameren and the subcommittee leads set the priority list for the October workshop. This is the agenda the group ranked, and these are the conversations already running between meetings.
This is where the ADMS and DERMS conversation is happening. Members compare implementation experience directly, from platform selection and migration off a legacy DMS through re-enabling advanced capabilities like power flow, feeder load management, and FLISR. The questions that get asked here are the operational ones: what the back office has to look like, who runs the load flows, and what the roadmap costs in people and process, not just technology.
Grid Mod Pod Episode 31 with Francis Frank on how utilities are organizing to get distributed energy resources right.
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