San Diego, CA | June 24, 2026 - Kitu Systems, a leading provider of clean energy solutions for distributed energy resource (DER) management and electric vehicle (EV) charging, announces the launch of Katapult, a testing-as-a-service offering that enables utilities and aggregators to validate and certify their DER programs at large scale before problems surface in the field.
As distributed energy resources proliferate across the grid, utilities face growing pressure to ensure their management platforms can handle large, simultaneous device interactions during load shifting and demand response events. Performance issues and certificate failures that go undetected in normal operations can cause real disruptions when it matters most. Katapult gives utility teams a way to find and fix those issues before they manifest.
Katapult is purpose-built around IEEE 2030.5 and supports CSIP and CSIP-AUS deployments, making it directly applicable to the compliance and certification requirements utilities face in both North American and Australian markets, at a scale of up to one million devices. Each test run produces a detailed report with expert analysis, helping teams identify issues including race conditions, delivery latency, performance degradation, memory leaks, and response code compliance failures, before they impact a real DER event.
"Utilities are being asked to manage more devices, across more programs, under tighter compliance requirements and most have no way to know how their platform will actually behave under that pressure until something goes wrong,” shares Thomas Barbour, Kitu’s Chief Commercial Officer. “Very few organizations in this industry have the depth of IEEE 2030.5 expertise and the infrastructure to test at true fleet scale. With Katapult, we're bringing that capability directly to utility teams, so they can move forward with confidence.”
Kitu Systems has already validated the platform through one of the largest DER interoperability tests ever conducted, simulating one million concurrent device connections under real protocol load, giving utilities confidence that Katapult isn't just built for scale, it's been proven at scale.
Don't wait for a failed DER event to find out how your platform performs. Contact Jay Pilkington, Kitu's VP of Sales, at jpilkington@kitu.io or (619) 569-2208 to learn how Katapult can validate your DER program at production scale.