Peak consumption management for resource distribution system
A computer-implemented method includes assigning, by a peak management system, a peak resource management schedule to a first premises and a second premises within a resource distribution network. The peak resource management schedule includes a first peak consumption period and a first limited resource consumption period for the first premises and a second peak consumption period and a second limited resource consumption period for the second premises, where the first peak consumption period and the second peak consumption period are different. The method also includes transmitting, by the peak management system, a peak resource management signal to the first premises and the second premises. The peak resource management signal includes instructions to commence execution of the peak resource management schedule at the first premises and the second premises.
1. A system comprising:
a metering device, including a distributed energy resource (DER) port, configured to meter resource generation by one or more DER components;
a smart panel configured to control application of power to a plurality of devices;
a processor; and
a non-transitory, computer-readable memory that includes instructions executable by the processor for causing the processor to:
access a peak resource management schedule;
receive a peak resource management signal comprising instructions to commence execution of the peak resource management schedule at a premises;
control the metering device to monitor premises resource consumption at the premises;
determine that a peak resource consumption portion of the peak resource management schedule is active;
in response to determining that the peak resource consumption portion is active, control the premises resource consumption at the premises to an amount that is less than a peak resource consumption level of the peak resource management schedule, the controlling the premises resource consumption at the premises comprising controlling the application of power by the smart panel to the plurality of devices;
determine that a limited resource consumption portion of the peak resource management schedule is active; and
in response to determining that the limited resource consumption portion is active, control the premises resource consumption at the premises to an amount that is less than a non-zero, limited resource consumption level of the peak resource management schedule.
2. The system of claim 1 , where the peak resource management schedule comprises:
a first peak consumption period and a first limited resource consumption period for a first premises associated with the metering device, where a second peak consumption period and a second limited resource consumption period for a second premises associated with a second metering device are different from the first peak consumption period and the second peak consumption period.
3. The system of claim 2 , where the first peak consumption period and the second peak consumption period do not overlap by more than 10% of either the first or second peak consumption period.
4. The system of claim 1 , where the instructions are further executable by the processor for causing the processor to:
receive incentive information associated with controlling the premises resource consumption to an amount that is less than a specified level;
receive premium cost information associated with controlling the premises resource consumption to above the specified level; and
control the premises resource consumption using the incentive information and the premium cost information.
5. The system of claim 1 , where the peak resource consumption portion enables the premises resource consumption to be an amount that is twice the amount of premises resource consumption during the limited resource consumption portion, or more than twice the amount of premises resource consumption during the limited resource consumption portion.
6. The system of claim 1 , where controlling the premises resource consumption to an amount that is less than the non-zero, limited resource consumption level of the peak resource management schedule comprises:
assigning priority levels to a plurality of resource consuming devices; and
instructing a subset of the plurality of resource consuming devices with a lowest priority level of the priority levels to reduce resource consumption.
7. The system of claim 1 , where the premises comprises a portion of a microgrid system, a first controller of the microgrid system receives a microgrid resource management schedule from a second controller of a resource distribution network, and the first controller of the microgrid system is configured to provide the peak resource management schedule to each premises of the microgrid system based on the microgrid resource management schedule.
8. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium comprising instructions that are executable by a processor for causing the processor to perform operations comprising:
accessing a peak resource management schedule;
receiving a peak resource management signal comprising instructions to commence execution of the peak resource management schedule at a premises;
controlling a metering device to monitor premises resource consumption at the premises;
determining that a peak resource consumption portion of the peak resource management schedule is active;
in response to determining that the peak resource consumption portion is active, controlling the premises resource consumption at the premises to an amount that is less than a peak resource consumption level of the peak resource management schedule, where controlling the premises resource consumption at the premises comprises controlling an application of power by a smart panel to a plurality of devices;
determining that a limited resource consumption portion of the peak resource management schedule is active; and
in response to determining that the limited resource consumption portion is active, controlling the premises resource consumption at the premises to an amount that is less than a non-zero, limited resource consumption level of the peak resource management schedule.
9. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 8 , where the peak resource management schedule comprises:
a first peak consumption period and a first limited resource consumption period for a first premises associated with the metering device, where a second peak consumption period and a second limited resource consumption period for a second premises associated with a second metering device are different from the first peak consumption period and the second peak consumption period.
10. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 9 , where the first peak consumption period and the second peak consumption period do not overlap by more than 10% of either the first or second peak consumption period.
11. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 8 , the operations further comprising:
receiving a second peak resource management signal comprising instructions to cancel the peak resource management schedule at the premises; and
in response to receiving the second peak resource management signal, controlling the premises to resume a standard resource consumption level.
12. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 8 , where the operation of controlling the premises resource consumption to the amount that is less than the non-zero, limited resource consumption level of the peak resource management schedule comprises:
instructing one or more resource consuming devices to reduce resource consumption to a zero level or to a non-zero level, where the non-zero level comprises a reduction from a peak consumption level of the one or more resource consuming devices.
13. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 8 , where the instructions to commence the execution of the peak resource management schedule at the premises further comprise a particular time in which each premises that is assigned the peak resource management schedule is to commence the execution of the peak resource management schedule.