Central plant control system with automatic optimization formulation

A central plant control system configured to serve one or more energy loads in a building, the central plant control system comprising:

• equipment configured to consume, produce, or store one or more resources including electricity, water, natural gas, steam, hot thermal energy, cold thermal energy, or electrical energy;
• and
• an asset allocator configured to:
• receive an input model that describes a physical layout of the equipment of the central plant;
• create a net list that defines connections between the equipment of the central plant using the input model;
• discover one or more systems of interconnected equipment and one or more groups of equipment using the net list;
• formulate an optimization problem for the central plant using the systems and groups of equipment;
• and
• operate the equipment of the central plant according to the optimization problem.

A central plant configured to serve one or more energy loads in a building, the central plant comprising:

• equipment configured to consume, produce, or store one or more resources including electricity, water, natural gas, steam, hot thermal energy, cold thermal energy, or electrical energy;
• and
• an asset allocator configured to:
• receive an input model that describes a physical layout of the equipment of the central plant;
• discover one or more systems of interconnected equipment and one or more groups of equipment using the input model;
• formulate an optimization problem for the central plant using the systems and groups of equipment;
• and
• operate the equipment of the central plant according to the optimization problem.