Electrical load management using thermal comfort
AssigneeIcf International
InventorsAhmed Bekhit, Mohamed Abdelsalam, Haider Khan, Vincent Dufresne, Steven Fine
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Abstract
A method for electrical demand management and/or reduction includes the steps of determining a thermal comfort index for a premises, dispatching a thermostat setpoint signal to the premises to cause an electrical demand reduction event at the premises, and terminating the electrical demand reduction event at the premises prior to a time at which a thermal response model for the premises indicates a temperature inside the premises exceeds the thermal comfort index for the premises.
Claims20
A method comprising the steps of:
- determining a thermal comfort index for a premises;
- dispatching a thermostat setpoint signal to the premises to cause an electrical demand reduction event at the premises;
- and
- terminating the electrical demand reduction event at the premises prior to a time at which a thermal response model for the premises indicates a temperature inside the premises exceeds the thermal comfort index for the premises.
An apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to:
- determine a thermal comfort index for a premises;
- dispatch a thermostat setpoint signal to the premises to cause an electrical demand reduction event at the premises;
- and
- terminate the electrical demand reduction event at the premises prior to a time at which a thermal response model for the premises indicates a temperature inside the premises exceeds the thermal comfort index for the premises.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.