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Citadel - Simplified and Scalable DER Service
Citadel™ is one of the main components of Kitu Systems’ Grid Action Platform™ (GAP) and is a powerful and flexible, open-standards-based DER Service for utilities that need to meet the ever-evolving complexities of the modern energy grid. It is designed to securely communicate with up to millions of interconnected DERs either directly or through an aggregator. Citadel™ can be deployed behind a customer’s firewall or in the cloud, and provides users with the ability to model the grid, collect and aggregate telemetry, and securely issue controls to ensure grid stability.
- Fully supports the IEEE 2030.5 standard favored by most utilities and can connect and manage any DER which implements the standard.
- Operates stand-alone using Kitu Systems’ UI, or it can integrate via API with third-party DERMS or any utility/grid management system.
- Provides device management via Kitu Systems’ Spark™ or Envoy™ Gateway service.
- Deploy on-premises at utilities or in the cloud.
- Set different smart inverter behaviors based on their location in the grid topology and based on varying grid conditions (e.g., time of day and seasonal changes).
- Inputs and navigates your grid topology down to service access points and smart inverters.
- Manually define and dispatch controls right away, which can rapidly improve your grid.
- Collect and visualize metrology data for connected devices.
- Define, schedule, dispatch, and verify DER controls, adjusting inverter behavior at individual level or group level based on your topology.
- Operates over a nodeJS environment and supports SQL databases.
As a critical component of a utility back-office infrastructure, Citadel™ is designed from the ground up to provide secure operation and secure connectivity.
Citadel™ is also the first server to complete CSIP certification with a compliant test suite and it provides industry-leading security with built-in SOC-2, Type 2 certification.
While other companies are primarily focused on managing DERs over proprietary interfaces which allow them to sell more of their own hardware products, Citadel™ is open-standards-based and can integrate, aggregate and control any DER (e.g., solar PV, energy storage, and EV chargers) which implements the IEEE 2030.5 / SEP 2.0 standard. Citadel™ also has an optional API to integrate into utility systems or 3rd party DERMS.