TESTING OF A DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCE (DER) MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DERMS)

A cloud computing system is provided for testing a Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Management System (DERMS) that manages operation of DERs connected to a power system. The cloud system implements a DERMS testing platform on virtualized cloud computing resources of the system. The platform tests the DERMS and is modularized. In some embodiments, the DERMS is modularized into at least a simulation module and a communication module, where the simulation module is configured to simulate DER(s) of power system and the communication module communicatively interfaces DERMS with DER(s) via communication network(s). The simulation module also simulates the power system under test conditions as the DERMS manages operation of DER(s) via the communication module. The cloud computing system exposes the platform as a service for testing the DERMS under test conditions. The cloud system scales the resources allocated to the platform with the number of DER(s) simulated under different test conditions.