Peak energy control system including automated validation, estimation, and editing rules configuration engine

An energy control system that performs validation, estimation, and editing (VEE) on interval-based energy consumption streams, the system comprising:

• a sources metadata stores, that provides VEE rules corresponding to each of the interval-based energy consumption streams for performing VEE;
• a post VEE readings data stores, that provides tagged energy consumption data sets that are each associated with a corresponding one of the interval-based energy consumption streams, each of said tagged energy consumption data sets comprising groups of contiguous interval values tagged as having been validated, wherein said groups correspond to correct data;
• a rules processor, that reads said post VEE readings data stores upon initiation of an event and, for said each of said tagged energy consumption data sets, that creates anomalies having different durations using only said groups of contiguous interval values, and that generates estimates for said anomalies by employing estimation techniques for each of said different durations and, for said each of said different durations, that selects a corresponding one of said estimation techniques for subsequent employment when performing VEE of subsequent energy consumption data associated with said each of said different durations for said corresponding one of said interval-based energy consumption streams, and that updates said sources metadata stores with said one of said estimation techniques;
• weather stores, that provides forecasted outside temperatures corresponding to the interval-based energy consumption streams;
• a peak prediction element, coupled to said post VEE readings data stores and to said weather stores, that receives post VEE readings and said forecasted outside temperatures, that estimates future cumulative energy consumption corresponding to the interval-based energy consumption streams, and that predicts a brown out time when said cumulative energy consumption exceeds a specified threshold;
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• a peak controller, coupled to said peak prediction element, that receives said brown out time, wherein said peak controller triggers exceptional measures to manage said cumulative energy consumption in order to preclude a brown out, said exceptional measures comprising initializing one or more surge production plants.

A method for energy control that performs validation, estimation, and editing (VEE) rules for performing VEE on interval-based energy consumption streams, the method comprising:

• providing tagged energy consumption data sets that are each associated with a corresponding one of the interval-based energy consumption streams, each of the tagged energy consumption data sets comprising groups of contiguous interval values tagged as having been validated, wherein said groups correspond to correct data;
• reading the post VEE readings data stores upon initiation of an event;
• for the each of the tagged energy consumption data sets, creating anomalies having different durations using only the groups of contiguous interval values and generating estimates for the anomalies by employing estimation techniques for each of the different durations;
• for the each of the different durations, selecting a corresponding one of the estimation techniques for subsequent employment when performing VEE of subsequent energy consumption data associated with the each of the different durations for the corresponding one of the interval-based energy consumption streams;
• providing forecasted outside temperatures corresponding to the interval-based energy consumption streams
• receiving post VEE readings and the forecasted outside temperatures, estimating future cumulative energy consumption corresponding to the interval-based energy consumption streams, and predicting a brown out time when the cumulative energy consumption exceeds a specified threshold;
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• receiving the brown out time, and triggering exceptional measures to manage the cumulative energy consumption in order to preclude a brown out, the exceptional measures comprising initializing one or more surge production plants.