Behind the meter flow control to separate renewable energy
Assignee8Me Nova, LLC
InventorsGautham Ramesh, Zeljko Gigio Sakota
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Abstract
A system includes a first renewable energy source (RES) configured to provide electrical energy; a first circuit comprising a first energy storage system (ESS) and a point of interconnection (POI) coupled to a power grid; a second circuit comprising a second ESS and a source-sensitive destination; and a first switch configured to selectively connect one of the first circuit or the second circuit to the first RES.
Claims19
A system comprising:
- a first RES configured to be selectively coupled to a first circuit or a second circuit via a first RES switch;
- a first ESS configured to be selectively coupled to the first circuit or the second circuit via a first ESS switch;
- a POI coupled to the first circuit and configured to receive energy from and supply energy to an electrical grid;
- a source-sensitive destination coupled to the second circuit, wherein the first circuit is not configured to be coupled to the second circuit;
- a state of charge (SOC) monitoring system configured to measure the SOC of the first ESS;
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- a controller comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the controller to:
- send a signal to the first RES switch to couple the first RES to the second circuit;
- at a first time, send a signal to the first ESS switch to couple the first ESS to the second circuit;
- at the first time, receive a first measured SOC of the first ESS from the SOC monitoring system;
- at a second time, receive a second measured SOC of the first ESS from the SOC monitoring system;
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- upon determining that the second measured SOC does not exceed the first measured SOC, disable a flow of energy from the first ESS to the source-sensitive destination.
Non-transitory computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a process comprising:
- sending a first signal to a first renewable energy system (RES) switch to couple a first RES to a second circuit, the second circuit coupled to a source-sensitive destination;
- sending a second signal at a first time to a first energy storage system (ESS) switch to couple a first ESS to the second circuit;
- receiving at the first time a first measured SOC of the first ESS from a state of charge (SOC) monitoring system configured to measure the SOC of the first ESS;
- receiving at a second time a second measured SOC of the first ESS from the SOC monitoring system;
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- upon determining that the second measured SOC does not exceed the first measured SOC, disabling a flow of energy from the first ESS to the source-sensitive destination.
A method, comprising:
- sending a first signal to a first renewable energy system (RES) switch to couple a first RES to a second circuit, the second circuit coupled to a source-sensitive destination;
- sending a second signal at a first time to a first energy storage system (ESS) switch to couple a first ESS to the second circuit;
- receiving at the first time a first measured SOC of the first ESS from a state of charge (SOC) monitoring system configured to measure the SOC of the first ESS;
- receiving at a second time a second measured SOC of the first ESS from the SOC monitoring system;
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- upon determining that the second measured SOC does not exceed the first measured SOC, disabling a flow of energy from the first ESS to the source-sensitive destination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.