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On the 2025 OATI Power Convention, Joseph R. Johnson, senior marketing consultant of strategic initiatives at Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) sat down with John Engel from OATI to debate new partnerships with tech giants, the “three E’s” pillars of TVA, and dealing with demand response in a area experiencing notable load progress.
The world seems so much totally different than it did when TVA got here into existence in 1933 by way of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act. Now, TVA has one of many largest utility demand response portfolios within the nation, and the problem to get extra sources has remodeled from “one 1000-MW answer” to “hundreds of one-MW options,” Johnson famous.
TVA’s path to a distributed vitality useful resource administration system (DERMS) began with its in-house demand response administration system (DRMS), which enabled balancing authority, energy merchants, and operators to dispatch it.
In TVA’s service area, a brand new wave of progress within the C&I sector has disrupted the historically flat load progress, which may now be a relic of the previous. As TVA’s portfolio continued to develop, the utility wanted extra scalability and automation in its options, which led to TVA choosing OATI in 2019 for its transition to DERMS.
Now, with collaborations within the works with tech giants like Google and Amazon, TVA sees one other alternative to enhance.
“We’re leveraging these partnerships to say, ‘Okay, that is what we are able to do with conventional infrastructure, how can we pace up the timeline, and is it a value adder or is it a value saver on the finish of the day?’” Johnson stated. “How can we streamline the method whether or not we’re speaking to Google or Amazon, or anyone on the finish of the day so we are able to allow this for progress within the area?”
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