Press Release

*SGS is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (MEPPI)

Piclo is pleased to add SGS’s Strata Grid Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) as part of a growing list of DERMs providers integrated with Piclo’s flexibility marketplace platform. This collaboration aims to improve grid reliability, efficiency, and safety by enabling utilities to better manage supply-demand imbalances and grid congestion. 

By integrating Piclo’s Marketplace platform into SGS’s Strata Grid, utilities can proactively and autonomously address forecasted grid constraints by initiating flexibility auctions, securing the necessary DER imports and exports, and dispatching resources in real time. In cases where forecast errors lead to unexpected grid constraints, Strata Grid’s real-time constraint management application activates additional controllable DERs to ensure grid safety and reliability. SGS’s Strata Grid and Piclo’s Marketplace platform enhance DER visibility, improve coordination between utility IT/OT systems, and deliver better price signals for utilities.

Alex Ghanem, Northeast US Lead at Piclo, said:

“At Piclo, we're excited to expand our relationship with SGS and MEPPI into North America, where the demand for end-to-end solutions for grid services from DERs across the grid is growing. Together, we're helping utility customers navigate the immense challenges from load growth by combining Piclo's marketplace solution with SGS’s Strata Grid’s reliability and safety, enabling multiple use cases for buyers and sellers of flexibility to transact, coordinate, operate, and settle grid services dynamically.”

Drew Smith, EVP Sales and Business Development, North America at Smarter Grid Solutions, Inc., said:

“SGS and Piclo have had a long-standing relationship and we are happy to expand this in North America where the need for end-to-end solutions to utilize DERs for constraint management applications across different time horizons is growing. Working with Piclo in North America allows us to animate markets for customers and evolve demand response and customer programs to a new level of engagement.”

About MEPPI

Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (MEPPI) serves the North American power systems, rail transportation, and large visual display markets with electrical and electronic products, systems and services. The products offered include gas circuit breakers, vacuum circuit breakers, power transformers, gas-insulated substations, power electronics and electricity transmission technologies including high voltage DC, battery energy storage systems, generator services, DERMS and cloud-based control and optimization platforms for DER, nuclear power plant control systems, uninterruptible power supplies, rail transportation equipment, and high-definition LED displays for sports, commercial, and retail installations.

Smarter Grid Solutions Limited (SGS) is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. For over 15 years, SGS has been developing and delivering Distributed Energy Resources Management Software (DERMS) solutions. SGS’s suite of solutions fulfils the needs of utilities, DER developers, microgrid developers, and grid edge customers.