Dynamic distributed power grid control system

A computer-readable storage medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine wherein said program of instructions comprises a plurality of program codes for managing a transmission/distribution power grid wherein the transmission/distribution power grid includes a plurality of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) coupled to a plurality of power consumers, said program of instructions comprising:

• program code for dynamically managing at an enterprise control module power flow parameters within the transmission/distribution power grid so as to stay within defined operating limits using self-altering and/or predictive calculations;
• program code for receiving at one or more of a plurality of regional control modules power requests from the enterprise control module wherein each regional control module is associated with a region associated with a portion of the plurality of the DERs;
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• program code for managing at each of the plurality of regional control modules DERs within its associated region.

A computer system for managing a transmission/distribution power grid wherein the transmission/distribution power grid includes a plurality of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), the computer system comprising:

• a DER interface for each of the plurality of DERs wherein each DER interface translates implementation specific commands and data:
• a machine capable of executing instructions embodied as software and interfacing with existing supervisory control and data acquisition systems for the transmission/distribution power grid;
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• a plurality of software portions, wherein
• one of said software portions is configured to dynamically manage at an enterprise control module power flow parameters within the transmission/distribution power grid so as to stay within defined operating limits using self-altering and/or predictive calculations:
• one of said software portions is configured to receive at one or more of a plurality of regional control modules power requests from the enterprise control unit wherein each regional control module is associated with a region associated with a portion of the plurality of DERs;
• and
• one of said software portions is configured to issue, at one or more of the plurality of regional control modules, commands to one or more of the DERs within the associated region of the one or more regional control modules through one of a plurality of local control modules.