Highly flexible, electrical distribution grid edge energy manager and router

An energy management device for placement on a portion of an electrical distribution grid downstream of a source connection and upstream of an energy consumer connection, the device comprising:

• (i) a primary electrical connection terminal for receiving power from or transmitting power to a source connection, the primary electrical connection terminal comprising at least one of a first voltage sensor and a first current sensor;
• (ii) at least one secondary electrical connection terminal for providing power to or receiving power from a consumer, the at least one secondary electrical connection terminal comprising at least one of a second voltage sensor and a second current sensor;
• (iii) a modular electrical circuit layer in electrical communication with the primary electrical connection terminal and the at least one secondary electrical connection terminal comprising a processing circuit for processing a portion of the power received by the device;
• (iv) a controller layer configured to control the electrical circuit layer, the control layer comprising at least one computer processor and nonvolatile memory coupled to the computer processor in operable communication with the at least one first and second sensors, so as to receive an output signal from the at least one first and second sensors;
• (v) a physical layer comprising at least one communication device in operable communication with the controller layer, the communication device for transmitting data relating to the output signal to an end user;
• (vi) wherein the modular electrical circuit layer further comprises a multi-layer protection system for detecting one or more fault conditions, and responding to the one or more fault conditions when detected.