Citadel

Simplified and Scalable DER Service

Citadel is Kitu Systems’ utility-scale, behind-the-firewall solution within the Grid Action Platform (GAP). It’s a scalable, flexible, grid-native 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 integrate with a DERMS, model the grid, collect and aggregate telemetry, and securely issue controls to ensure grid
stability.

Citadel Features

Scalability

A scalable DER service, currently managing one million endpoints.

Manage DER Topology

Set different smart inverter behaviors based on their location in the grid topology and based on varying grid conditions (e.g., time of day). Manually define and dispatch controls right away, which can rapidly improve your grid.

Maximize Energy Efficiency

Define, schedule, dispatch, and verify DER controls, adjusting inverter behavior at individual level or group level based on your topology.

Grid Topology

Inputs and navigates your grid topology down to service access points and smart inverters.

Cloud Agnostic

Deploy on-premises at utilities or in the cloud.

Flexible Integration

Operates stand-alone using Kitu Systems’ UI, or it can integrate via API with third- party DERMS or any utility/grid management system.

Device management

Provides device management via Kitu Systems’ Spark solution.

Secure Data

Collect and visualize metrology data for connected devices.

Simple Application Deployment

Containerized solution that runs on Kubernetes.

Security

As a platform interfacing with both end-users and utilities, Citadel manages critical communications and services. Security is essential to its design, implementation and day-to-day operation.

The Kitu Systems' team is also committed to achieving 99.9% uptime and running regular maintenance and security updates.

Seamless
deployment

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 provides a low-friction integration with the optional Northgate API into utility systems or third-party DERMS.

Managed
services

Kitu Systems provides services to simplify application development and integration. We can help you integrate Citadel into your ecosystem and provide you with well documented Software Development Kits (SDKs), including API documentation, sample application or interface code and testing capabilities.

Citadel

Simplified and Scalable DER Service

Citadel Features

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