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US 11,056,913 B2Granted
Intelligent grid operating system to manage distributed energy resources in a grid network
AssigneeApparent Labs, LLC
InventorsStefan Matan, Fred C. Horton, Frank P. Marrone
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Abstract
A grid distribution system aggregates energy resources of multiple distributed energy resources (DERs) and provides service to one or more energy markets with the DERs as a single market resource. The DERs can create data to indicate realtime local demand and local energy capacity of the DERs. Based on DER information and realtime market information, the system can compute how to provide one or more services to the power grid based on an aggregation of DER energy capacity.
Claims19
A distributed energy resource (DER) node, comprising:
- a hardware interface to gather data from one or more sensors that monitor realtime data for the DER node, including local demand information of loads for a customer premises of a power grid, and energy generation for one or more energy sources of the customer premises;
- a network interface device to couple over a network to a control center, to provide the realtime data for the DER node to the control center;
- grid interconnect hardware to adjust apparent power operation for the DER at a point of interconnection to the power grid, including adjusting real power operation or reactive power operation or both real power and reactive power operation of the DER with respect to the power grid, to provide dispatchable energy as a service to the power grid in response to realtime market demand, as a participant with a plurality of DERs, the plurality of DERs to provide power to the grid as a single energy market resource for the power grid;
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- a four-quadrant energy meter to determine a quadrant of apparent power operation for the customer premises based on inflow or outflow of both real power and reactive power.
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A method for energy distribution in a grid network, comprising:
- aggregating realtime data for multiple distributed energy resources (DERs), including customer demand information of local customers of the DERs and energy generation for the DERs;
- receiving realtime market demand information for one or more energy markets;
- dispatching requests to a plurality of DERs in response to a realtime market demand to aggregate energy services of the plurality of DERs;
- providing dispatchable energy as a service to the grid network from customer premises, in response to the realtime market demand, including adjusting real power operation or reactive power operation or both real power and reactive power operation of one or more of the DERs with respect to the grid network, to provide power to the grid network from the plurality of DERs as a single energy market resource;
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- determining a quadrant of apparent power operation for the customer premises with a four-quadrant energy meter based on inflow or outflow of both real power and reactive power.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.