IP Library Granted Patent US 11,177,661
Granted Patent B2
US 11,177,661 · App. 16/576,762 · Granted Nov 16, 2021

Systems and methods for managing electricity supply from demand

Inventor: Junkyeong Kim (Rancho Cucamonga, CA)
Assignee: MicroNOC, Inc.
H02J3/32G05B15/02G06Q50/06H02J3/383H02J13/0017
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Patent No.
US 11,177,661
App. No.
16/576,762
Granted
Nov 16, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system to manage power consumption from a grid includes a building switchgear; an independent system organization (ISO) meter coupled to the building switchgear, the ISO meter including a telemetry unit to communicate with an ISO; and an energy storage system (ESS) coupled to the building switchgear, wherein the ESS selectively provides power in response to a customer power demand to prevent a customer grid power consumption from spiking and peaking at grid imbalance highest cost on peak times.

Claims (25)

1. A system to manage power consumption from a grid, comprising:

a switchgear for a building;

an independent system operator (ISO) revenue grade meter coupled to the switchgear, the ISO meter including a telemetry unit to communicate with an ISO for utility bill settlement calculations;

a local meter to capture energy usage; and

an energy storage system (ESS) coupled to the switchgear, the local meter, and the ISO or a System Performance Meter, and

code to determine an ESS capacity by analyzing a highest peak and a lowest peak during a selected period from historical data and operate the ESS based on the local meter output to selectively provide power in response to a customer power demand to prevent a customer grid power consumption from spiking and peaking at grid imbalance highest cost on peak times, while the ISO or System Performance meter output is processed as a utility bill for the building.

2. The system of claim 1 , comprising a power management system (PMS) coupled to the ESS.

3. The system of claim 2 , comprising an ESS system performance site meter coupled to the PMS.

4. The system of claim 1 , comprising a utility revenue grade meter coupled to the grid building switchgear.

5. The system of claim 1 , comprising an ESS controller to control operations of the ESS.

6. The system of claim 5 , comprising a battery management system in a battery rack.

7. The system of claim 1 , comprising a power conversion system (PCS) coupled to a battery rack.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the ESS comprises a cooling system.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the ESS controller controls a fire alarm, signal, alert, or suppression system.

10. The system of claim 1 , comprising an AC and DC disconnect switches positioned between the grid and one or more power conversion systems (PCSes).

11. The system of claim 1 , comprising code to profile Customer Electricity Usage, and code to determine electricity cost savings.

12. The system of claim 11 , comprising code to optimize resource capacity.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the resource capacity includes power from one or more batteries and one or more solar panels.

14. The system of claim 1 , comprising code to determine a consumption behavior over a period of time to identify a Demand and Energy Peak Usage Pattern and Patterns during ON PEAK hours under Utility Tariffs.

15. The system of claim 1 , comprising code to find a highest peak (kW) during ON PEAK hours.

16. The system of claim 1 , comprising code to find a lowest peak (kW) during ON PEAK hours.

17. The system of claim 1 , comprising code to determine a demand cut on a customer load during a peak hour.

18. The system of claim 1 , comprising a plurality of photovoltaic (PV) modules coupled to the ESS.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein the plurality of PV modules are connected to one or more PV combiners.

20. The system of claim 19 , comprising a DC-DC converter coupled to the PV combiners, further comprising a plurality of battery combiners coupled to the DC-DC converter.

Continuity (1)
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