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US 2021/0328456 A1Published application
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.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A distributed energy resource (DER) node, comprising:
- a four-quadrant energy meter to gather realtime data for a customer premises, including information about local demand and information about energy generation to indicate inflow and outflow of both real power and reactive power for the customer premises from a power grid;
- a node controller to determine from the realtime data, a quadrant of apparent power operation for the customer premises, and determine based on grid conditions of the power grid, a desired quadrant of apparent power operation for the customer premises;
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- a power converter to adjust a ratio of real power to reactive power to change the quadrant of apparent power operation to the desired quadrant of apparent power operation.
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A method in a node of a grid network, comprising:
- determining, from realtime data gathered with a four-quadrant energy meter for a customer premises, a quadrant of apparent power operation for the customer premises, the realtime data including local demand information and energy generation to indicate inflow and outflow of both real power and reactive power for the customer premises from a power grid;
- identifying, based on grid conditions of the power grid, a desired quadrant of apparent power operation for the customer premises;
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- adjusting a ratio of real power to reactive power with a power converter of the customer premises to change the quadrant of apparent power operation to the desired quadrant of apparent power operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.