Sense, a grid technologies company, is debuting services enabling utilities to detect distributed energy resources (DERs) and other energy loads in the home. These services are capable of making transformer and feeder-level mapping of the grid and its DERs.
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Sense Load Visibility Solution uses the latest AMI meters to detect distributed resources, like rooftop solar, while acknowledging appliance loads, to find opportunities for home electrification.
“With real visibility into what’s happening at the intersection of the grid and the home, utilities can take control of the most unpredictable part of distribution,” said Sense CEO Mike Phillips. “They can target investments where the grid is most vulnerable, respond faster to emerging issues and design smarter programs that actually reflect how homes are using and generating energy.”
Sense’s Load Visibility Solution includes three core services that can be bundled or purchased separately based on utility needs — Home Analytics, Solar Analytics and EV Analytics. Each service is delivered through AMI 2.0 smart meters that use Sense WaveformAI.
Home Analytics separates whole-home energy into categories like heating, cooling and laundry, and can identify heat pumps, as well. Solar Analytics detects behind-the-meter generation and measures solar production. EV Analytics shows EV charging at the grid edge, detecting both Level 1 and Level 2 charging events and usage.
Sense plans to integrate real-time views of DERs generation and consumption, grid congestion prevention, greater network stress point visibility and transformer-level overload and service limit avoidance.
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