Following a competitive bid process, Sunverge -- provider of an industry-leading distributed energy resource (DER) control, orchestration and aggregation platform - this week announced that it has been selected by Nova Scotia Power, a vertically integrated utility based in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the Smart Grid Atlantic Pilot project, providing residential behind-the-meter virtual power plant technologies that include Sunverge real-time DER control, orchestration and aggregation platform combined with LG Electronics residential energy storage systems.

"We are excited to be selected for this groundbreaking and highly innovative project and to have the opportunity to work closely with Nova Scotia Power to demonstrate the value of residential battery systems for their customers and to the electric grid," said Martin Milani, CEO of Sunverge. "We are confident that Sunverge's advanced platform will demonstrate the value of aggregating residential behind-the-meter storage systems for the Nova Scotia electricity grid and participating customers. The combination of real-time dynamic load flexibility and grid services is a powerful tool for managing the grid of the future and integrating the growth of distributed energy resources."

The Sunverge platform will be used by Nova Scotia Power to explore opportunities to co-optimize both consumer and grid services. Grid services, based on day-ahead and intra-day generation planning, include:

• peak demand reduction and load leveling
• generation contingency support
• distribution feeder congestion management
• renewables smoothing

Consumer services include:

• energy arbitrage
• PV self-consumption
• backup power to critical loads during grid outages

These value streams will offer additional grid reliability and resiliency benefitting Nova Scotia Power's entire service area.

Source: Sunverge Energy