Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for use in the management of energy distribution transactions, for use in energy transmission transactions, and for use in energy commodity trading. Computer services, namely, acting as an application service provider in the field of knowledge management to host computer application software for the purpose of facilitating energy transmission scheduling, energy trading and risk management, smartgrid operations, electricity distribution control actions, customer program enrollment, asset control, energy load curtailment event scheduling, post operation event reporting, distributed energy resource aggregation, and communication with external application program interfaces. Application service provider, namely, hosting, managing, developing, and maintaining applications, software, and web sites, in the fields of energy distribution, Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems, and Smart Grid operations