Capability·Grid Services, Storage & VPP·Overview

Distributed energy resources, orchestrated and monetised

DERs are transforming the global energy landscape. Our domain expertise lets companies move fast, capture new revenue, and scale with confidence — whether you're building a product or managing grid resilience as a utility.

Topic
Grid Services, Storage & VPP
Type
Capability overview
By
Full Stack Energy
In short

Distributed Energy Resources — wind, solar PV, EVs, battery storage — are decentralised, flexible, and increasingly essential for climate goals, affordability and reliability. We're a solution-led services partner that designs everything from software platforms to custom hardware across hybrid cloud, edge and embedded architectures: DERMS, virtual power plants, demand response, storage integration and grid resilience. Every system starts from your specific challenge.

Distributed Energy Resources represent both a challenge and an opportunity. We're a solution-led services partner, designing everything from software systems to custom hardware — always guided by our clients' needs. The capabilities below are examples, not a catalogue: every solution starts with understanding your unique challenges and ends with a tailored, purpose-built system that meets them head-on.

What are Distributed Energy Resources?

DERs are decentralised, flexible, and increasingly essential to meet climate goals, energy affordability and reliability — spanning wind, solar PV, electric vehicles and battery storage. They sit at the centre of a changing energy market, where grid decentralisation is driving complexity, customers expect real-time low-cost sustainable solutions, and regulatory and market incentives increasingly reward flexibility. Integrating DERs into legacy systems, building products to leverage them, or operating them profitably is where we come in — guided by your business objectives.

Intelligent orchestration through technology

We build and scale solutions that operate across hybrid architectures — cloud-native platforms, secure edge gateways, and embedded firmware for local autonomy.

DER Management Systems (DERMS)

Advanced control algorithms manage DER dispatch, load balancing, and voltage/frequency regulation. Systems integrate with SCADA and AMI infrastructure for real-time control and event-triggered automation.

Virtual Power Plants (VPP)

Aggregated DERs are dispatched via machine-learning models that factor in weather data, real-time pricing, asset state-of-charge, and load forecasts. We support market participation in ancillary services, capacity, and wholesale energy markets.

Demand response

Our platforms enable automated, event-based curtailment and behavioural demand response. Integration with OpenADR protocols ensures compliance and flexibility across utilities.

Energy storage integration

Multi-layered architectures control battery storage across use-cases including peak shaving, arbitrage, backup power and frequency response, with predictive analytics for lifecycle management and degradation modelling.

Grid resilience

The same multi-layered control extends to resilience strategies — keeping critical loads supplied and assets coordinated through disturbances, with the analytics to anticipate and manage stress on the system.

"We don't sell products — we deliver answers. Whether you're a utility, OEM, or clean-energy innovator, we engineer custom solutions based on your exact needs."

Lead Engineer, Full Stack Energy

Where this connects

DER orchestration is the operational backbone behind much of our work — from virtual power plants going mainstream to peak shaving with storage and the analytics in Renewable Intelligence.

05FAQ

Common questions about distributed energy resources

A DER Management System (DERMS) is the control layer that dispatches and coordinates distributed assets — managing load balancing and voltage/frequency regulation, usually integrated with SCADA and AMI. A Virtual Power Plant (VPP) sits on top: it aggregates those assets and trades their combined flexibility in energy and ancillary-services markets. Put simply, a DERMS controls the assets; a VPP monetises them.

Yes — that's the usual starting point. We build across hybrid architectures (cloud, secure edge gateways and embedded firmware) and integrate with existing SCADA, AMI and OpenADR infrastructure rather than requiring a rip-and-replace. The goal is to add orchestration and market participation on top of what you already run.

Depending on your region and asset mix, aggregated DERs can bid into ancillary services (frequency and reserve), capacity mechanisms and wholesale energy markets. Our VPP models factor in weather, real-time pricing, state-of-charge and load forecasts to decide when to dispatch for the best return while respecting asset and grid constraints.

Both. We're a full-stack services partner — from cloud-native DERMS and VPP platforms down to secure edge gateways and custom embedded firmware for local autonomy. Where off-the-shelf hardware fits, we use it; where a problem genuinely needs a bespoke device, we design and build it.

We control storage across peak shaving, arbitrage, backup power and frequency response within a single multi-layered architecture, with predictive analytics for degradation and lifecycle management — so one asset can serve several value streams without compromising its warranty or lifespan.

Have a DER-related challenge?

Let's solve it together. Whether you're a utility, OEM or clean-energy innovator, we'll engineer a custom solution based on your exact needs.