Capacity, a dcbel Company, Launches at Distributech 2025

• Distributed energy is turning an increasing number of homes into power plants, presenting significant challenges for energy market stakeholders.
• Capacity, a dcbel company, seeks to empower grid operators, utilities, commercial aggregators, EV OEMs and other energy companies to uncover new revenue streams resulting from new grid flexibility options.
• Capacity and dcbel will be exhibiting at Distributech 2025 in Dallas from March 24-27.

DALLAS, March 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - As solar panels, bidirectional electric vehicles (EVs), home batteries, and other distributed energy resources (DERs) contribute to the electrification and decarbonization of society, they can be the source of major grid volatility and hinder the ability to forecast future energy supply and demand.

Today dcbel announced the launch of Capacity, whose mission is to empower grid operators, utilities and energy stakeholders to gain clearer situational awareness of their future grid, identify specific areas requiring reinforcement, and unlock next-generation orchestration of DERs through innovative automated flexibility programs that resonate with the needs and expectations of residential consumers.

With Capacity, grid operators and utilities will have access to a suite of cutting-edge products allowing them to confidently forecast grid flexibility across all distributed energy resources, enable real-time transaction management, and launch consumer-friendly programs.

Parallel Home Energy Digital Twin allows grid operators and utilities to simulate a decentralized network

Capacity's real-time home energy digital twin product, Parallel, offers a unique simulation of residential DER adoption within the territories served by energy companies. Recognizing that no two homes consume, store, and export energy in the same way, Parallel integrates baseline or real-time meter data with various dynamic energy prosumer synthetic profiles to deliver hyper-accurate persona-based local energy forecasts. This capability assists grid operators and utilities in calculating day-ahead and intraday feeder net load correlations, helps commercial aggregators refine their transactive energy bidding and pricing models, and enables grid planners to develop detailed grid investment plans that incorporate behind-the-meter self-consumption models.

Capacity Control Room and Technical Aggregator unlock new real-time visibility over flexibility transactions and consumer interactions

Capacity also supports Flexibility Service Providers in perfecting their DER flexibility program revenue generation through a scalable technical aggregation API. This powerful real-time interface allows for the solicitation of thousands of DERs, clustered per flexibility program, to access behind-the-meter real-time alarms and measurements, integrating user authentication and privacy protections, enabling real-time opt-in/opt-out into automated transactions, and grid operator-compliant transaction reporting.

Capacity prioritizes cybersecurity with robust end-to-end security measures from the grid edge to control rooms, including secure data exchange powered by Microsoft Azure, TLS encryption, Oauth2.0 authentication, and public-private certificate management, along with continuous monitoring to mitigate cyber threats. Capacity is fully compliant with key industry standards, including IEEE 2030.5, OpenADR protocols, and grid data ontologies derived from the IEC CIM Model. It is certified to the SunSpec Common Smart Inverter Profile (CSIP) standard, ensuring reliable communication and secure interoperability between bidirectional hardware and smart grid systems.

"The rapid adoption of DERs at the grid edge, including solar and storage, V1G and V2G EV charging, and heat pumps, among others, is quickly raising grid constraints at both transmission and distribution levels, forcing stakeholders to consider new flexibility transactions, dynamic price strategies and flexible connection agreements while orchestrating real-time interactions at grid edge," said Laurent Schmitt, CEO of Capacity. "We are offering a new generation of multisided Control Room and Digital Twin operational environments to bring grid operators and commercial aggregators complete observability over critical assets located behind the meter while automating associated flexibility transactions and keeping residential prosumers in full control."

Capacity will officially launch at Distributech 2025. For more information, visit our website at capacity.energy.

SOURCE dcbel Inc.