Entergy Services LLC has chosen GridUnity‘s cloud-based Interconnection Lifecycle Administration software program product to streamline the interconnection course of for distributed power sources. Entergy delivers electrical energy to roughly 3 million prospects by 5 working firms in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
GridUnity’s platform was chosen to simplify and speed up the method of including distributed power sources together with solar energy and power storage to the grid. The GridUnity platform supplies the pliability and scalability to handle the total lifecycle of the interconnection course of and can allow standardized automation throughout all jurisdictions leading to a constant expertise for Entergy’s 5 utilities and their respective prospects.
With the GridUnity software, candidates obtain speedy, automated suggestions if an entry is incomplete, making certain all submitted purposes meet established requirements. Entergy workers will now have the ability to assessment and reply to submitted purposes in much less time than was beforehand required, offering steering all through the remainder of the interconnection course of. Use of the GridUnity software will create a extra clear and near-real-time interconnection queue, releasing Entergy’s engineers and different staff concerned with the interconnection course of to spend extra of their time addressing the higher-value wants of consumers.
“Over the previous 5 years, by our work with quite a few utilities, we’ve been capable of hone our platform to carry out notably higher than legacy instruments and processes,” says Brian Fitzsimons, CEO of GridUnity. “Our objective is to assist transfer the trade ahead by know-how innovation that permits for elevated penetration of distributed power sources. The flexibility to streamline interconnection processes is among the keys that unlocks entry to the way forward for power.”
