Building Energy Management is a broad category encompassing energy management software and hardware, energy efficiency services and sustainability and carbon management solutions for buildings. It also includes the technologies involved in creating grid-interactive buildings, such as demand response, virtual power plants, distributed energy management and behind-the-meter energy storage solutions. Within that space, a software category called Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) has emerged to regulate multiple buildings in different geographies at the same time, in order to manage energy consumption and efficiency with the grid. DERMS are used to organize the operation of the aggregated DER within a power grid by balancing against Behind-The-Meter (BTM) Distributed Energy Resources in buildings. This places DERMS at the center of an exciting space co-occupied by virtual power plants (VPPs) and microgrids, where DERMS are becoming the enabling factor for rapid growth in the market. This emergence has attracted the attention of investors and in this research note, […]