In a landscape marred by high overhead costs and fragmented platforms, the DER ecosystem faces significant deployment challenges. While attempting to respond to this, narrow and non-standardized tools are exacerbating the issue by offering proprietary solutions that lack seamless integration and neglect DER first principles.

Ecosuite has been developed to address these problems, we have used our combined decades of customer and DER industry engagement to not only understand the needs of each stakeholder, but to deliver an integrated solution offering dedicated user experience for each category of user. The solution is targeted at organizations managing and working with diverse, commercial-scale DER portfolios. Our platform is particularly catered to industry experts–developers, IPPs, aggregators-and corporations directly investing in sustainable infrastructure.

Organizations that adopt Ecosuite can expect:

• Enhanced operational insight and productivity
• Reduced transactional friction
• Optimized asset monetization 

Ecosuite achieves this by: 

• Offering an off-the-shelf tech stack designed for DERs
• Providing legacy systems integration options while also offering new, connected tools
• Abstracting and normalizing asset information to provide repeatable processes – eg. project data and documentation, economics, energy, device attributes, performance etc.
• Leveraging an industry leading open operating system and data taxonomy 

Ecosuite’s platform offers solutions to at least 6 categories of users or businesses.  The user experiences offered within these different categories are pulled from our higher level feature sets called Forge, Amp, SQC, and Foresight – ultimately as a user of Ecosuite, you have the option to access the functionality that you need, comprising various tools and user experiences designed to support developers, asset managers, financiers, field technicians, data scientists and grid operators in all the complex and cross functional workflows that may be required.

Develop, Manage and Finance (Forge)

DER developers and financiers battle a myriad of operational and transactional challenges. Juggling various sources of unorganized data while maintaining control over modeling, timeline and documentation iterations is a burden that grows along with the size of a pipeline – no matter the project size.

Valuable time is spent deciphering truth and data is often confined to static, quickly outdated, reports, eliminating the ability to intelligently utilize deployment data to make real-time decisions. 

To address this, Ecosuite provides the following:

• Flexible integrations with CRMs, models, Gantt charts, accounting systems etc.
• Corporate forecasting tools for enhanced real time project and portfolio insight
• Unified underwriting/reporting platform including deliverables checklists and document repositories
• Advanced user permissioning to enable customer experience and partner insight

Monitor, Control and Maintain (Amp)

DER asset managers and field service technicians are increasingly juggling various disconnected devices and non-standard ownership requirements. Effectively managing portfolio obligations, performance and service requests is manual, time consuming and prone to miscommunication. 

Ecosuite streamlines workflows for asset managers and O&M providers, condensing and prioritizing the most relevant data points and health alerts for easy portfolio monitoring and resolution.

To achieve a more robust process, Ecosuite provides the following functionality:

• Virtual and physical data acquisition via cloud integration or use of Ecosuite’s open architecture edge compute node
• Real-time insight into energy and economic performance
• Effective health alerts to increase speed to resolve system faults
• Standardization across all heterogeneous assets
• Automatic, manual and predictive events and alerts

Aggregate, Analyze and Collaborate (SQC)

The scarcity of accessible data has greatly reduced the potential for data scientists to learn from the DERs that have been deployed, ultimately slowing industry progress and innovation. To compound this effect, data sources featuring inconsistent structures, low or fixed sample rates, and minimal data points per device further detriment analyses, demanding meticulous handling to extract valuable insights.

Ecosuite empowers data scientists by enabling systematic exploration, engagement and ML model publishing with support for heterogeneous DERs.

To contribute to the progression of DER research and development, Ecosuite provides the following functionality:

• Offers asset owners easy to activate monetization options to share data either anonymized or not.
• High quality / standardized data and metadata across all DER types
• Accessible Infrastructure for data analytics, model training and grid-edge publishing
• Open source community, contribution and collaboration

Forecast, Automate and Fortify (Foresight)

Grid operators and resource aggregators face significant hurdles as they navigate the complexities of the modern energy distribution system. Managing a multitude of diverse devices, systems, protocols and communication channels presents a formidable challenge, complicating the coordination and integration of resources. 

Ecosuite infrastructure contributes to grid stability and acceleration of DER integration by layering AI-enabled applications on top of a standardized and open source network operating system. 

We are leveraging technology to embrace DERs as a grid reliability solution.  

To support the modernization and decarbonization of our energy system and the resulting reduction in ratepayer costs, Ecosuite provides the following benefits:

• Open source DER network operating system accommodating all DERs and communication protocols  
• AI enabled applications including predictive maintenance and energy forecasting 
• Optimization of Grid service market engagement to amplify DERs contributions to improved grid resilience and reliability

The DER industry is experiencing dynamic and pervasive roadblocks to accelerated growth and technical progress. Some of these challenges are a self-inflicted result of the race to create proprietary, black box solutions, when the way forward must actually be collaborative, open, and comprehensive. Our grid, its operators, its participants, and its beneficiaries need solutions that encourage an ecosystem of efficiency, interoperability, transparency, and automation. 

Ecosuite is tailored for industry experts and corporations managing DER portfolios, it offers a pragmatic approach to addressing these pain points. With features designed to drive progress and facilitate collaboration, Ecosuite allows you to navigate the complexities of the DER C&I sector with accelerating speed.