Navigant Research Names Siemens, Enbala, and AutoGrid Leading Providers of Distributed Energy Resources Management Systems for DER and Grid Management

Leading solutions can be tailored to operate in a wide variety of
regulatory environments and by different actors in the power market

BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/DER?src=hash” target=”_blank”gt;#DERlt;/agt;–A new Leaderboard Report from Navigant
Research examines the strategy and execution of 16 distributed
energy resources management systems (DERMSs) for distributed energy
resources (DER) and grid management providers, with Siemens, Enbala, and
AutoGrid ranked as the leading market players.

As the roles of stakeholders evolve—from the end customer, to the
utility, and all the way up to policymakers—there are many questions as
to how DER will be optimally managed. A new wave of technologies
developed to manage DER, like DERMSs, presents both opportunities and
challenges for vendors and utilities. Click
to tweet: According to a new Leaderboard report from @NavigantRSRCH,
Siemens, Enbala, and AutoGrid are the leading DERMS for DER and grid
management providers.

“Incumbent information technology/operational technology (IT/OT)
vendors, new entrants, and startups have each approached product
development from different perspectives, creating a diverse landscape of
vendors in the highly competitive DERMS market,” says Roberto Rodriguez
Labastida, senior research analyst at Navigant Research. “Today’s
leaders are offering comprehensive solutions that can be tailored to
operate in a wide variety of regulatory environments and by different
actors in the power market like market operators, system operators,
energy suppliers, or aggregators.”

Companies that trail the leaders have different backgrounds, with most
offering specialized platforms extending into DERMSs. These backgrounds
include large technology companies expanding their advanced distribution
management system (ADMS) platforms, demand response management systems
(DRMS) platform vendors adding other DER, and market-facing virtual
power plant (VPP) platforms extending their solution to offer direct
grid management.

The report, Navigant
Research Leaderboard: DERMS Vendors, examines the
strategy and execution of 16 leading vendors offering DERMSs for DER and
grid management solutions. These providers are rated on 12 criteria:
vision; go-to-market strategy; partners; product integration strategy;
technology; geographic reach; sales, marketing, and distribution;
product performance; product quality and reliability; product portfolio
and ecosystem; pricing; and staying power. Using Navigant Research’s
proprietary Leaderboard methodology, vendors are profiled, rated, and
ranked with the goal of providing an objective assessment of these
companies’ relative strengths and weaknesses in the global DERMS market.
An Executive Summary of the report is available for free download on the Navigant
Research website.

About Navigant Research

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market research and benchmarking services for rapidly changing and often
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analysis, end-user primary research and demand assessment, and deep
examination of technology trends to provide a comprehensive view of
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* The information contained in this press release concerning the
report, Navigant Research Leaderboard: DERMS Vendors, is a
summary and reflects Navigant Research’s current expectations based on
market data and trend analysis. Market predictions and expectations are
inherently uncertain and actual results may differ materially from those
contained in this press release or the report. Please refer to the full
report for a complete understanding of the assumptions underlying the
report’s conclusions and the methodologies used to create the report.
Neither Navigant Research nor Navigant undertakes any obligation to
update any of the information contained in this press release or the
report.

Contacts

Navigant Research
Lindsay Funicello-Paul
+1.781.270.8456
lindsay.funicello.paul@navigant.com