Highly flexible, electrical distriubtion grid edge energy manager and router

A system of two or more electrical distribution energy management devices, each of the devices comprising:

• (i) a primary electrical connection terminal for receiving or transmitting power to or from an electrical grid;
• (ii) at least one secondary electrical connection terminal for bidirectional power transmission;
• (iii) a modular electrical circuit layer coupled to the primary electrical connection terminal and the at least one secondary electrical connection terminals, the modular electrical circuit layer comprising a power processing circuit for processing a portion of the power received by the device in either direction through a central DC power stage,
• (iv) a controller layer configured to control the modular electrical circuit layer, the control layer comprising at least one computer processor and nonvolatile memory coupled to the computer processor, and
• (v) a physical layer comprising at least one communication device in operable communication with the controller layer and further configured to communicate with a second energy management device;
• wherein the primary electrical connection terminal of a first energy management device is coupled to the secondary electrical connection terminal of a second energy management device for facilitating multi-level cascaded voltage regulation.