Orchestrating the Edge: Making Smart Homes and DERMS Work Together

The path to grid flexibility increasingly runs through the home, as smart panels, Matter-enabled devices and connected EV chargers are turning individual houses into active grid participants, and the same load disaggregation data that powers customer programs is now informing grid operations and planning. This session looks at how utilities are orchestrating that edge: smart panels for circuit-level visibility and control, the Matter standard's energy management clusters (device energy management, EV charging, tariffs and grid signals) for talking directly to in-home devices, and customer engagement for driving enrollment and keeping DERMS and smart home data in sync. Chris Moris, Chief Grid Architect at PG&E and Spencer Gill, VP of Planning at Hydro One, will share how their organizations are connecting customer programs with grid operations/planning around a shared home-to-grid data foundation, and what it takes to make smart homes and DERMS work together at scale.