2023-03-24 with Patty Cook
ICF currently works with SunVerge, Virtual Peaker, OATI, etc.
Should we be a direct aggregator (pilots for utilities), orchestrating DERs on behalf of utilities?
[The customer needs to be in the background. The grid should serve me, I shouldn’t have to serve the grid.
Distributed System Operator aka DER orchestrator. They want to be an overlay on top of all the aggregators underneath them.
If ICF sat side-by-side with a utility as a ‘super-aggregator’ for demand response. A middle entity that has a foot in each camp, ensures that the aggregators are operating with a minimum code of contact, and that the distribution grid is being taken care of too.
The super aggregator has SLAs with the aggregators. How does it help them?
- Help with customer acquisition
- Operate a secondary market for distribution grid objectives?