US 2014/0277797 A1 · Systems and Methods of Determining Optimal Scheduling and Dispatch of Power Resources

Abstract

A system and process/method is provided, which economically optimizes the dispatch of various electrical energy resources. The disclosed process/method is linked to and communicates with various sources of input data, including but not limited to, EMS/SCADA legacy Energy Management Systems (EMS), legacy Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems, Demand Response (DR) and Distributed Energy Resources (DER) monitor, control, schedule, and lifecycle management systems (DR/DER Management System), and Energy Markets, electrical energy commodity trading systems (Trading Systems), and Operations System (OPS) in order to compute optimal day-ahead, day-of, and real-time schedules of various durational length for generation, demand response and storage resources while taking into account bilateral contracts and market-based trade opportunities.

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Dependent claims

A system for determining optimal scheduling and dispatch of power resources, comprising:

a computer program for use with a computer having a memory;
a database;
the computer program running in the memory and for the input of data, which is stored in the database, and for calculation, organization, and reporting of power resource dispatch schedules to meet forecasted short-term demand, while minimizing both operating costs and interchange imbalances.

A method for the determination, optimal scheduling and dispatch of power resources comprising the steps of:

receiving power resource input data comprised of energy management system data, supervisory control and data acquisition data, demand response/distributed energy resources availability parameter data, energy market data, trading system data and operation systems data;
organizing the input data according to result characteristics;
defining or importing a process execution trigger;
calculating power resource dispatch schedules which minimize operation costs, upon the occurrence of the process execution trigger;
formatting dispatch schedule information for a particular use;
sending dispatch schedules to a second system, and
facilitating the generation of a report utilizing dispatch schedule information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/216,138Filed 17 Mar 2014

Priority

15 Mar 2013

Published

18 Sep 2014

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

G06Q 50/06
Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g.…:…
G06Q 30/0202
Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data: market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities
Y04S 10/50
Systems supporting electrical power generation, transmission or distribution: systems or methods supporting the power network operation or…
Y04S 50/14
Market activities related to the operation of systems integrating technologies related to power network operation or related to communication or…:…

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