Grid-edge intelligence for uncovering hidden DERs
ElectronCompass, the data analytics solution, gives utilities the visibility and precision to detect distributed energy resources (DERs), understand their system impact, and plan with confidence.
The challenge ElectronCompass addresses
As electrification accelerates, more of the system’s flexibility now lives behind the meter, in EVs, heat pumps, and energy storage.Most utilities still lack the visibility to detect these behind-the-meter assets or to measure their local impact.
Without this insight, planners can’t accurately forecast load growth, identify emerging constraints, or know where flexibility could replace or delay costly reinforcement. The result is growing uncertainty in grid planning and operations, as invisible, unmeasured loads drive congestion, curtailment, and investment risk.
ElectronCompass fills that gap with data-driven intelligence.
It uses existing utility data to reveal where flexible load is emerging, how it affects grid assets, and where it can be safely and profitably coordinated.
Why ElectronCompass
ElectronCompass delivers grid-edge intelligence faster, more accurately, and with less friction than traditional utility analytics approaches.- Fast to deploy Provides actionable insights in weeks through cybersecure, low-touch integrations.
- Proven accuracy Delivers 90%+ EV detection and statistically robust grid-edge modelling.
- No new telemetry or hardware Avoids costly field deployments by analysing the data utilities already collect.
- Vendor-agnostic and system-friendly Works with any meter vendor, program file, or utility system with minimal IT effort.
- Built for scale Has analysed 10+ billion AMI datapoints across large service territories.
How it works
Built on a cloud-based analytics architecture, ElectronCompass combines power systems engineering with AI/machine learning and data analytics to extract robust, defendable insights from ordinary utility data.
Uses existing hourly AMI and minimal GIS data – no new integrations required
Vendor-agnostic and API-light for fast, cybersecure deployment
Robust AI/ML models that provide regulatory-ready, statistically defensible results.
How ElectronCompass addresses your needs
Utilities can deploy individual analytics modules to address specific needs or combine them for a complete view of the grid edge.
Identify and locate EV charging across your service territory using only AMI data.
ElectronCompass detects Level 2 charging with over 90% accuracy, providing defensible visibility of adoption trends, charging behaviour, and load growth.
The solution extracts the nameplate capacity of each L2 charging system by location through AMI data so utilities understand the amount of flexible charging capacity available to support utility operations and program potential.
Its insights can also characterise EV adoption trends through regular and period geospatial and temporal EV detection and charging behaviour analysis. This helps utilities better plan distribution infrastructure and hone existing utility EV charging programs.
Quantify the effect of EVs and other DERs on service transformers and feeders
Reconstructed load profiles highlight where assets are stressed and when intervention is needed, turning raw data into actionable risk mitigation.
This can help improve grid assessment management through better prioritisation of immediate, medium, and long-term capacity constraints to support better capital planning.
ElectronCompass: Part of the Electron suite
ElectronCompass provides the intelligence layer of value orchestration.
Paired with ElectronConnect – which enables DER coordination and market activation – it allows utilities to analyse, quantify, and demonstrate DER impact.
FAQs
ElectronCompass is Electron’s grid-edge analytics platform, based on existing technology and expertise acquired with Rhythmos.io. It detects distributed energy resources (DERs) using existing utility data, quantifies their impact, and provides actionable insights for network planning and operations.
ElectronCompass provides the intelligence layer of value orchestration. It delivers the visibility and evidence utilities need to understand system flexibility. Paired with ElectronConnect, it turns that insight into coordinated market action.
It works with the data utilities already collect – such as AMI, GIS, customer program participant information, and asset records – avoiding costly new integrations.
ElectronCompass identifies where flexible capacity exists, how it affects transformers and feeders, and where flexibility can defer reinforcement or improve reliability.
Deployments are measured in weeks, not months. Its light, vendor-agnostic integration means utilities can begin extracting insights and value rapidly.
By providing verifiable analytics and transparent methodologies, ElectronCompass helps teams build defensible investment and regulatory cases backed by real data.
