Renewable energy delivery systems and methods
AssigneeAlliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
InventorHoward Andrew Walker
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Abstract
A system, method and/or apparatus for the delivery of energy at a site, at least a portion of the energy being delivered by at least one or more of a plurality of renewable energy technologies, the system and method including calculating the load required by the site for the period; calculating the amount of renewable energy for the period, including obtaining a capacity and a percentage of the period for the renewable energy to be delivered; comparing the total load to the renewable energy available; and, implementing one or both of additional and alternative renewable energy sources for delivery of energy to the site.
Claims18
A site load energy system for the delivery of energy to a load at a site, at least a portion of the energy being delivered by one or more of a plurality of renewable energy technologies, the system including:
- a site load for presenting a consumptive energy demand;
- a connection of the site load to a source of non-renewable energy for contribution to meeting the consumptive energy demand of the site load;
- a renewable energy sub-system connected to the site load for delivery of renewable energy in contribution to meeting the consumptive energy demand of the site load, the renewable energy sub-system also having a off-load connection to deliver any energy in excess of the demand to an off-load element;
- a hardware sub-system for obtaining a load value and a renewable energy value for the site load for a period of power delivery, including obtaining a rated capacity for the renewable energy source and a a capacity factor calculated as a percent of the period of power delivery during which the renewable energy sub-system is delivering the renewable energy at the rated capacity;
- and for comparing the load value to the renewable energy value over the period using the rated capacity factor for the renewable energy sub-system to meet, exceed or fail to fully meet the demand of the load, the hardware sub-system providing for one or more of delivery of renewable energy to the sight load, and the delivery of excess renewable energy generated to an off-load element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.