Distributed Energy Resource Evaluation Tool (DER-VET)
DER-VET? provides a free, publicly accessible, open-source platform for calculating, understanding, and optimizing the value of distributed energy resources (DER) based on their technical merits and constraints. An extension of EPRI's StorageVET® tool, DER-VET supports site-specific assessments of energy storage and additional DER technologies?including solar, wind, demand response, electric vehicle charging, internal combustion engines, and combined heat and power?in different configurations, such as microgrids. It uses load and other data to determine optimal size, duration, and other characteristics for maximizing benefits based on site conditions and the value that can be extracted from targeted use cases. Customers, developers, utilities, and regulators across the industry can apply this tool to inform project-level decisions based on sound technical understanding and unbiased cost-performance data.
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AB - DER-VET™ provides a free, publicly accessible, open-source platform for calculating, understanding, and optimizing the value of distributed energy resources (DER) based on their technical merits and constraints. An extension of EPRI's StorageVET® tool, DER-VET supports site-specific assessments of energy storage and additional DER technologies—including solar, wind, demand response, electric vehicle charging, internal combustion engines, and combined heat and power—in different configurations, such as microgrids. It uses load and other data to determine optimal size, duration, and other characteristics for maximizing benefits based on site conditions and the value that can be extracted from targeted use cases. Customers, developers, utilities, and regulators across the industry can apply this tool to inform project-level decisions based on sound technical understanding and unbiased cost-performance data.
AU -
DB - C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange
DP - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO -
KW - Battery energy storage
KW - Solar
KW - Photovoltaics
KW - PV
KW - Wind energy
KW - Planning and design
KW - Planning
KW - Design
KW - Demand flexibility
KW - Load management
KW - Utility integration
KW - Bulk-system Integration
LA - English
DA - 2024/12/18
PY - 2024
PB - Electric Power Research Institute
T1 - Distributed Energy Resource Evaluation Tool (DER-VET)
UR - https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/164
ER -
. Distributed Energy Resource Evaluation Tool (DER-VET). Electric Power Research Institute, 18 December, 2024, C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/164.
. (2024). Distributed Energy Resource Evaluation Tool (DER-VET). [Data set]. C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. Electric Power Research Institute. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/164
. Distributed Energy Resource Evaluation Tool (DER-VET). Electric Power Research Institute, December, 18, 2024. Distributed by C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/164
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abstractNote = {DER-VET? provides a free, publicly accessible, open-source platform for calculating, understanding, and optimizing the value of distributed energy resources (DER) based on their technical merits and constraints. An extension of EPRI's StorageVET® tool, DER-VET supports site-specific assessments of energy storage and additional DER technologies?including solar, wind, demand response, electric vehicle charging, internal combustion engines, and combined heat and power?in different configurations, such as microgrids. It uses load and other data to determine optimal size, duration, and other characteristics for maximizing benefits based on site conditions and the value that can be extracted from targeted use cases. Customers, developers, utilities, and regulators across the industry can apply this tool to inform project-level decisions based on sound technical understanding and unbiased cost-performance data.},
url = {https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/164},
year = {2024},
howpublished = {C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange, Electric Power Research Institute, https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/164},
note = {Accessed: 2026-06-18}
}
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Data from Dec 18, 2024
Last updated Mar 30, 2026
Submitted Jun 2, 2026
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Electric Power Research Institute
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