Data center growth is creating an urgent need for new sources of power and capacity. But meeting that moment should not only mean pulling commercial assets into a program to fill a capacity bucket.
Derapi’s Bring Your Own Distributed Capacity (BYODC) Network is designed to activate flexible energy resources where capacity is needed while creating value for the communities hosting new large load growth.
By connecting homes, buildings, customer networks, and local energy partners, BYODC can help enable community energy savings, build residential resilience, support local solar and storage deployment, and empower more people to participate in the value created by new energy demand.
Our BYODC Network brings together data center owners, aggregators, communities, energy providers, technology platforms, and local deployment partners to turn new load growth into local capacity, revenue, and resilience.
A New Approach to Capacity
Local DERs and controllable devices are already distributed throughout communities. Individually, each resource may be small. Connected and coordinated at scale, they can become a meaningful source of flexible capacity.
The challenge is bringing the right devices, data, partners, and program operations together.
Derapi provides a multi-manufacturer platform that enables partners to identify, access, enroll, and coordinate distributed energy resources across homes, buildings, and customer networks.
Through the BYODC Network, programs can create incentives for customers to enroll existing devices, support the deployment of new assets, and compensate participants for providing flexibility. This creates a model where new load growth can help fund local energy infrastructure and generate value for the communities supporting it.
From Capacity Need to Coordinated Network
Local DERs and controllable devices are already distributed throughout communities. Individually, each resource may be small. Connected and coordinated at scale, they can become a meaningful source of flexible capacity.
The challenge is bringing the right devices, data, partners, and program operations together.
Derapi provides a multi-manufacturer platform that enables partners to identify, access, enroll, and coordinate distributed energy resources across homes, buildings, and customer networks.
Through the BYODC Network, programs can create incentives for customers to enroll existing devices, support the deployment of new assets, and compensate participants for providing flexibility. This creates a model where new load growth can help fund local energy infrastructure and generate value for the communities supporting it.
A New Approach to Capacity
Every market and capacity challenge is different. The BYODC Network provides a flexible path from identifying a need to building and scaling a coordinated distributed energy program.
The process begins with a geography, customer network, capacity requirement, or data center-driven load challenge. From there, Derapi and its partners help install and connect approved devices and flexible resources within the market.
Our partner network can then support program design, customer enrollment, device coordination, performance tracking, and ongoing operations, helping turn connected assets into measurable flexibility.
Once the model is established, the program can scale across more devices, partners, customer groups, markets, and use cases.
Creating Value Across the Community
The BYODC Network is designed to make new load growth work harder for everyone involved:
Data center and infrastructure partners: it offers a way to complement traditional grid investments with faster distributed capacity solutions.
Aggregators and energy platforms: it provides broader device access and the ability to build programs with less custom integration work.
For third-party owners, independent power producers, multifamily operators, and property developers: it creates new opportunities to turn customer and asset networks into flexibility, revenue, and resilience.
For local solar and storage providers: it can generate opportunities across asset deployment, installation, enrollment, and program support.
For residents, small businesses, and communities: it can expand access to participant incentives, energy savings, solar and storage deployment, improved resilience, and local clean energy jobs.
Building Capacity Together
No single company can solve the capacity challenge alone. It requires coordination between the organizations creating new demand, the companies developing and operating energy programs, the manufacturers building connected devices, and the local partners deploying assets in the community.
The BYODC Network provides the technology, partnerships, and operational support to bring those pieces together.
By turning distributed devices into coordinated capacity, we can help support new load growth while creating lasting value for residents, businesses, and local energy partners.
Join the BYODC Network and help turn data center demand into local capacity, verified flexibility, and shared value. Contact our team to learn more.
