Private: Register now for Distributech OMS and DERMS courses!
November 6, 2018
GridBright will be teaching two Utility University courses at DistribuTECH 2019 on OMS and DERMS.
UU 203: The Future of Outage Management Systems
The future of outage management systems (OMS) is exciting and dynamic. Across the industry, changes are driving utilities and vendors to new levels of outage optimization. This includes new approaches to outage predictions, the use of social media, and cloud and data analytics. In this interactive course, students will learn the basics of OMS, greater reliability improving distribution management system (DMS) functions, and how this is integrated with enterprise systems including advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).
Monday, February 04, 2019: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Terry Nielsen, Executive Vice President
UU 303: Implementing Distributed Energy Resources Management Systems (DERMS) to Meet the Challenges of Distributed Resources Integration
This course provides background information and utility experience related to distributed energy resources management systems (DERMS), emerging computer applications that can help electric utilities better manage the increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DER), including distributed generation (DG), distributed storage (DS), electric vehicles (EV), demand response (DR) and microgrids.
Monday, February 04, 2019: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Travis Rouillard, Chief Technology Officer
Terry Nielsen, Executive Vice President
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