Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System is built on Oracle Utilities Network Management System (NMS). It adds incremental support to the Oracle Utilities Network Management System platform for the management of behind the meter demand response resources. Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System can initiate control signals to devices inside customer homes, such as smart thermostats. Oracle Utilities Network Management System facilitates the modeling of individual Demand Response devices down to the customer service point and/or aggregated to load transformers to support Oracle Utilities Network Management System driven optimization. In conjunction with Oracle Utilities Network Management System the Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System component can help optimize electrical networks both operationally and commercially.

Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System offers strategy templates to be used for forecasting for various scenarios during event management. It provides event functions that help grid operators manage and review the forecasted impact of an event. This includes the ability to nominate, approve or reject an event; monitor or cancel an ongoing event and audit historical events. Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System supports automatic generation of event stages (blocks of field device activity) for configured objectives. Stages are built based on cost scores and reduction forecasts received from external applications used to help monitor and manage the Demand Response programs.