Managing energy consumption of equipment using pulse width modulation

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by one or more computer processors cause the one or more computer processors to perform steps comprising:

• receiving a thermostat setting for controlling an equipment for changing temperature of a space associated with the equipment, the equipment controlled by a signal provided as input to the equipment;
• generating a modulated signal based on the thermostat setting by performing pulse width modulation of the signal provided as input to the equipment by causing the signal to be turned off for a portion of time interval and turned on for remaining time interval, the portion of time interval determined based on a duty cycle;
• and
• providing the modulated signal as input to the equipment, causing a demand of the equipment to decrease, wherein the demand is a moving average of power consumption of the equipment determined over a time interval of a predetermined length.

A computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by one or more computer processors cause the one or more computer processors to perform steps, comprising:
• receiving a thermostat setting for controlling an equipment for changing temperature of a space associated with the equipment, the equipment controlled by a signal provided as input to the equipment;
• generating a modulated signal based on the thermostat setting by performing pulse width modulation of the signal provided as input to the equipment by causing the signal to be turned off for a portion of time interval and turned on for remaining time interval, the portion of time interval determined based on a duty cycle;
• and
• providing the modulated signal as input to the equipment, causing a demand of the equipment to decrease, wherein the demand is a moving average of power consumption of the equipment determined over a time interval of a predetermined length.