Cirrus Flex | Cloud-based DER Portfolio Management

Cirrus Flex is Smarter Grid Solutions advanced cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) product for DER owner operators with growing portfolios. Cirrus Flex enables customers to own, access and utilise their DER data. As an independent technology provider, Cirrus Flex complements customer operations and the wider partner ecosystem, including route-to-market providers. Cirrus Flex provides the essential capabilities for:

• Remote and real-time monitoring

• Charge and discharge management

• Configurable site optimisation

• Aggregated Control: Virtual Power Plants

DER owners and operators need a single pane of glass to monitor their growing DER portfolios. They need enhanced DER dispatch to participate in energy markets, interface to trading partners and take advantage of new distribution flexibility markets. Aggregated control through optimised Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and energy management systems enables route to market for larger portfolios of assets.

Cirrus Flex enables a range of business models including:

Energy Services: Optimised control, visualisation and reporting of DER installed at end-customer sites.

Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS): Unified, flexible platform to stack revenue streams across multiple route-to-market providers for portfolios. A centralised ‘single pane of glass’ across fleets of projects managing interfaces to multiple route-to-market providers and powering asset and market analytics.

Industrial and Commercial Energy Management: ESG reporting (Net Zero Carbon); Optimised and co-optimised energy assets for bill savings and certainty; Resilience and Energy security.