Control systems and methods for virtual power plants
AssigneeSap SE
InventorUwe Dittes
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Abstract
Systems and methods for the control of distributed systems are presented, particularly virtual power plants. Control software therefore communicates through an interface with decentralized devices. Modules are provided to formulate strategies based on predicted demand for the system, for controlling individual system devices, for system evaluation, for accounting purposes and to provide a user interface.
Claims20
A distributed system control unit, comprising
- at least one communications interface;
- the at least one communications interface coupled at least indirectly to two modules;
- wherein a first of the two modules comprises executable code for controlling at least two geographically distributed devices;
- and
- wherein a second of the two modules comprises executable code for developing a strategy to control the at least two geographically distributed devices.
A method for controlling a plurality of geographically distributed devices, comprising the steps of:
- receiving data comprising active status and output of at least one device through a communications interface;
- calculating a system state;
- calculating, based on the system state and historical data, a predicted demand;
- and
- controlling through the communications interface the at least one device corresponding to the predicted demand.
A machine readable medium having computer code embedded therein which, when executed causes the machine to perform a method comprising the steps of:
- receiving data from a plurality of power generating devices, the data indicating an active state and, if active, an output of each device;
- receiving historical data from a database;
- calculating a predicted power demand;
- and
- controlling each of the plurality of devices to change a system state if the predicted demand is different than a present system state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.