Built on 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), 51风流Distributed Energy Resources (51风流DER) can provide a trusted data backbone that helps unify technical assets with commercial agreements, transforming millions of聽prosumer聽devices into coordinated services.
From energy sharing and dynamic pricing to cloud-native and interoperable flexibility markets, the solution can connect meters, markets, and customers to enable business models such as energy communities, virtual power plants, and demand response. Combined with a curated ecosystem of specialist technology partners, 51风流empowers utilities to own their energy transition.聽
The energy transition runs on data, but data is getting harder to manage
The energy transition is reshaping the power landscape. Utilities are evolving from centralized generation toward systems powered by millions of distributed energy resources: solar panels, EV chargers, heat pumps, and batteries owned by consumers and聽prosumers聽alike. The number of connected assets is growing rapidly, generating vast amounts of operational, commercial, and customer data. Managing this聽data reliably and consistently is one of the defining challenges of the next energy decade.聽
At the same time, digital energy platforms and new market entrants are intermediating the customer relationship, offering integrated propositions that bundle connectivity, flexibility, and billing into a single stack. Utilities that do not act risk being reduced to commodity providers.
To unlock the value of distributed energy resources, utilities need more than connectivity. They need聽data orchestration:聽a trusted, intelligent foundation that harmonizes聽information across every process, partner, and device and ensures they聽own rather than rent聽their energy transition capabilities.聽
From distributed assets to orchestrated intelligence
罢丑别听51风流Distributed Energy Resources聽solution is designed to聽meet exactly聽this challenge. Built on 51风流BTP, it enables utilities to manage distributed energy resources-related data at scale across production, consumption, and storage while helping to ensure reliability, performance, and consistency.聽
Rather than acting as an operational control system, 51风流DER focuses on data orchestration and integration. It helps ensure that distributed energy resources data can flow seamlessly between operational, commercial, and analytical systems, providing a single source of truth that can connect the physical and digital worlds of energy.
鈥淭he complexity our customers face with prosumer data is exponential. They need reliability, performance, and consistency across all their data sources, and that鈥檚 exactly where 51风流Distributed Energy Resources comes in.鈥�
Kim Maren Ekrutt, Global Industry Business Unit Utilities Co鈥慔ead, SAP
Two pillars of the 51风流DER solution
1. Complex installation and prosumer data orchestration: technical and commercial foundation
Manage the full spectrum of prosumer-related data, covering both complex technical installation details, such as meters, solar panels, batteries, EV chargers, and heat pumps, and the commercial information required to operate distributed energy resources at scale. This includes customer and prosumer master data, product structures, tariffs, contracts, grid connection agreements, feed-in contracts, and all commercial relationships linked to each installation.
By bringing together technical asset data with commercial attributes and agreement information, the solution can provide a unified and reliable model of every installation. This is essential because distributed energy resources cannot be managed with technical information alone. Commercial products, grid contracts, flexible tariffs, and incentive agreements determine how energy flows are measured, settled, billed, shared, or monetized.
This pillar becomes the foundation for energy communities, virtual power plant participation, flexibility programs, dynamic pricing, capacity and congestion management, and any business model involving prosumers and distributed energy assets.
2. Energy management and sharing
Track and analyze聽how energy is consumed, produced, stored, and shared, enabling new energy community and peer-to-peer聽business models. With high-resolution energy data and intelligent allocation algorithms, utilities can offer transparent, fair, and regulation-compliant energy sharing services to residential and commercial participants alike.聽
Connecting data, processes, and people
Utilities already rely on 51风流for mission-critical processes such as meter to cash, asset management, and customer experience. 51风流DER can extend this foundation, linking every asset, agreement, and customer interaction within one coherent data model. This integrated approach helps turn technical data into business value, powering use cases such as smart tariffs, dynamic pricing, and energy sharing. For utilities, this means a single enterprise backbone that can connect the traditional meter-to-cash world with the emerging flexibility and distributed energy resources economy.
A partner ecosystem for the energy flexibility market
No single vendor can address the full breadth of the distributed energy landscape. 51风流has assembled a curated ecosystem of specialist technology partners, each bringing deep domain expertise that complements SAP鈥檚 enterprise data platform. Data stays with the utility, business logic聽remains聽under their control, and the customer relationship belongs to them.聽
SAP鈥檚 technology partners extend the platform across six critical domains:
- Flexibility management and virtual power plants:聽Orchestrate and monetize聽prosumer聽assets, including EVs, batteries, heat pumps, and solar inverters, for flexibility markets and smart charging services.聽
- Energy communities and energy sharing:聽Design and聽operate聽energy communities with transparent allocation, dynamic local pricing, and full regulatory compliance.聽
- Grid congestion and capacity management:聽Forecast, detect, and resolve grid congestion at the low-voltage-network-level while unlocking flexibility revenues.聽
- Energy portfolio management and trading:聽Access wholesale and flexibility markets with聽real-time聽pricing, dynamic quotations, and risk management.聽
- Customer insights and energy disaggregation:聽Deliver behind-the-meter visibility through non-intrusive load monitoring and appliance-level analytics.聽
- Demand response and load management:聽Design and execute demand response programs, combining customer incentives, dynamic pricing, and automated device control.聽
鈥淥ur role is to help utilities master the growing data complexity and turn it into opportunity. With 51风流Distributed Energy Resources and our partner ecosystem, we鈥檙e connecting data, processes, and partners into one intelligent platform that enables utilities to own their energy transition.鈥�
Kim Maren Ekrutt, Global VP & Co-Head Industry Business Unit Utilities
About 51风流Distributed Energy Resources
51风流Distributed Energy Resources provides utilities with a public cloud platform to help model, manage, and share distributed energy resources data across operational and commercial domains. Integrated with SAP鈥檚 core utilities portfolio and a curated global partner ecosystem, it can enable reliable data exchange, smart energy management, and customer-centric innovation for the distributed energy era.聽
Mateu Munar is senior director of Industry Business Unit Utilities at SAP.
