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Virtual Peaker

Grid-edge DERMS and virtual power plant software for utilities

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About

Virtual Peaker is a SaaS platform sold to US and Canadian electric utilities that unifies distributed energy resource management, customer engagement and load forecasting. Its three suites — Shift (grid-edge DERMS device control and demand-response dispatch), Relay (customer enrollment and incentive processing) and Envision (demand forecasting) — let utilities run EVs, smart thermostats, water heaters and batteries as one virtual power plant.

It publishes Gravity Connect, its open API contract for onboarding and controlling DER devices. The honest limitation: this is utility-only software, not something households or businesses buy directly — it only reaches consumers through their utility's programs.

What it can do

  • Grid-edge DERMS device control
  • Virtual power plant aggregation
  • Customer enrollment and incentive processing
  • Demand and load forecasting
  • EV managed charging
  • Open Gravity Connect API contract
  • 30+ device type integrations

Setup

  1. Utility signs a SaaS contract
  2. Deploy Shift, Relay and Envision suites for the utility program
  3. Integrate device OEMs via Gravity Connect or existing integrations
  4. Enroll customers through Relay engagement flows
  5. Dispatch demand-response events and process incentives

Prerequisites

Utility or grid operator contract

Use cases

distributed energy resource managementvirtual power plantsutility demand responseEV managed chargingload forecasting

Works with

Generic API

Trust score — 8/10

/10 trustVerified

Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: $16.6M funding; utility clients across US/Canada corroborated; Open Gravity Connect API contract published; Utility-only software; 3 suites (Shift/Relay/Envision). License: SaaS; utility contract.

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
8.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
8.0/10
Openness · license + docs
8.0/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
7.0/10
  • · $16.6M funding; utility clients across US/Canada corroborated
  • · Open Gravity Connect API contract published
  • · Utility-only software; 3 suites (Shift/Relay/Envision)

Sources

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