Read about what the GridAPPS-D team has accomplished to enable advanced distribution functionality in our new “GridAPPS-D at Three” whitepaper and what key objectives are ahead.

Grid-APPS-D™ enables standardization of data models, programming interfaces, and the data exchange interfaces for:

• devices in the field
• distributed apps in the systems
• applications in the control room

• reduce utility time and cost to integrate new functionality
• give utilities more choice in technology providers 
• scale up or down for any size utility
• expand market opportunities for developers and vendors

• robust testing tools for applications 
• distribution system simulation capabilities
• standardized research capability
• reference architecture for the industry
• application development kit

“The industry has desperately needed something like GridAPPS-D™ to bring together the best minds – vendors, practitioners, and researchers – so that people aren’t working in silos. There isn’t another platform like it for distribution operations.”

"Traditional implementation of utility automation systems has suffered from the high cost of custom integration. GridAPPS-D™ enables software developers to offer products that have been developed and tested on a platform that leverages established utility interoperability standards. I expect that GridAPPS-D™ will accelerate the adoption of useful software modules in the same way that cell phones have accelerated the development of apps that we all find indispensable.”

Develop and test apps for a full range of distribution operations use cases

Reduce time and cost to integrate new functionality

Extend your value to utility customers with portable apps

Use a standardized research platform