This section describes new features and functionality included in this release of Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management including the following:

This section describes new product usability enhancements introduced in this release, including:

The DACS Customer Portal provides you with customer- and program-related information, such as the following customer summary or digital asset context information:

The Main section of the portal enables you to perform the following actions:

This enables you to drive customer program management, and view enrollment and event-related activities.

Oracle's Redwood user experience provides a single search box to quickly retrieve customer, account, and meter information such as customer name, address, contact info, and serial number. For more complex queries, you can use the link provided to navigate to a pre-configured advanced search portal. You can also search for Oracle Utilities application menu items using the same single search box.

This allows you to quickly find customer and meter information without leaving the current page.

This section describes new integration-related enhancements introduced in this release, including:

Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights can send a kWh Avoided file to Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management. This file contains the actual energy reduction achieved for the duration of the event for each customer.

Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights calculates the kWh reduction achieved by each participating customer in a program event based on the event outcome sent by Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management Systems, the smart meter consumption data received from AMI systems, and the load curve values referenced from historical consumption data. Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights generates kWh avoided files consisting of comma separated records for each participating metered service point and places them in a configured location. Oracle Integration Cloud transfers the files between the configured source and target locations via secure file transfer or object storage buckets.

Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management records and uses the kWh avoided information to determine financial settlement data.

Refer to the Importing, Configuring, and Testing Integration Connections section in the Oracle Utilities Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service Integration to Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resource Management System Configuration Guide for more information.

Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System can share event outcome details after scheduled events with the Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service. This ensures that the actual program event participation outcome for each controllable device is correctly updated and can be factored into the controllable device score calculation.

Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System dispatches a control signal via Oracle Utilities Live Energy Connect to a controllable device identified for a program event. Upon completion of the program event, the controllable device responds with an event outcome to indicate the participation was successful, the customer overrode the event, or the control signal was rejected by the controllable device.

Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System receives the event outcome from Oracle Utilities Live Energy Connect, transforms the outcome to a consistent message format, generates an event outcome file, and sends the file to Oracle Integration Cloud for publishing. Upon receiving the file, Oracle Integration Cloud traverses individual records to invoke the Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management event outcome web service and sends an acknowledge response to Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System upon completion of the process.

The successful update to the event participation record in Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management is factored into the next Device Score Calculation to allow for optimal selection of devices for the next program event.

Refer to the Importing, Configuring, and Testing Integration Connections section in the Oracle Utilities Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service Integration to Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resource Management System Configuration Guide for more information.

Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System can share the actual event outcome details for each device after completion of a scheduled event with Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights.

Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System dispatches a control signal via Oracle Utilities Live Energy Connect to a controllable device identified for a program event. Upon completion of the program event, the controllable device responds with an event outcome to indicate the participation was successful, the customer overrode the event, or the control signal was rejected by the controllable device.

Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System receives the event outcome from Oracle Utilities Live Energy Connect, transforms the outcome to a consistent message format, generates an event outcome file, and sends the file to Oracle Integration Cloud for publishing. Upon receiving the file, Oracle Integration Cloud transfers the file between the source and target locations via object storage buckets or secure file transfer. Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights records the event outcome across each metered service point.

This enables the computation of the "kWh Reduced" value to use in financial settlements and the calculation of the load reduction forecast for the corresponding service point.

Refer to the Importing, Configuring, and Testing Integration Connections section in the Oracle Utilities Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service Integration to Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resource Management System Configuration Guide for more information.

Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights can periodically send a load reduction forecast file containing the forecasted load reduction values for all metered service points associated to an active program enrollment to Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System.

Synchronization between Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management and Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights is a mandatory prerequisite for running the integration flow, which ensures the Program Subscription is updated for all customers.

Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights calculates the load reduction forecast for each metered service point associated with an active program by leveraging historic consumption, historical event outcome, and weather forecast data. Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights periodically generates load reduction forecast files consisting of comma separated records and transfers the files between the source and target locations via secure file transfer or object storage buckets.

Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System uses the load reduction forecast, device score, and availability to reserve the optimal set of controllable devices for a program event.

Refer to the Importing, Configuring, and Testing Integration Connections section in the Oracle Utilities Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service Integration to Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resource Management System Configuration Guide for more information.

You can synchronize the customer's program subscription information n Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management with Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights after a successful enrollment or unenrollment from a program.

The enrollment orchestration within Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management sets up the relationship between the customer (contact, location), their controllable device, and the associated program via the program subscription. Once a customer and their controllable device is successfully enrolled in Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management, it triggers a message to synchronize the data with Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights for the associated service point so that it is included in load reduction forecasting and actual kWh Avoided calculations.

A mandatory prerequisite for the integration is the synchronization between a Customer Information System and Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights, which ensures customer contact and location information are already updated so that identifier values can be processed.

Based on configurable parameters, this integration will handle synchronization of initial load requests at the beginning of an implementation and any updates to a customer's program subscription in Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management for enrollments and unenrollments. Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management generates comma separated files, which list individual enrollment sync records and Oracle Integration Cloud can be used to transfers the files between configured source and target locations either via secure file transfer or via object storage buckets. Oracle Utilities Analytics Insights will process individual records from the comma separated files and send an acknowledgment response per record back to Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Management to complete the process.

You can leverage this Oracle Integration Cloud flow to synchronize the program subscription information between the applications so that the eligible customers are included in load reduction forecasting and actual kWh Avoided calculations.

Refer to the Importing, Configuring, and Testing Integration Connections section in the Oracle Utilities Oracle Utilities Digital Asset Cloud Service Integration to Oracle Utilities Grid Edge Distributed Energy Resource Management System Configuration Guide for more information.