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US 12,422,807 · App. 18/535,229 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

System apparatus and method for energy management, for usage by consumers of energy from electric utility service providers, and monitoring and management of same

Inventor: Michael Andrew Davis, II (Lockhart, TX)
G05B19/042G06N5/025G06Q30/04H04L12/2825G05B2219/2639Y04S50/12
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Patent No.
US 12,422,807
App. No.
18/535,229
Granted
Sep 23, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The disclosure includes methods, systems and apparatus for predictive management of efficient selecting and receiving of retail electric utility service to a facility for a period, by automated selecting of a retail utility service provider corresponding to a selected least cost path of predicted rate plan choices across the period, wherein costs of all possible, viable time-bounded predicted rate plan choices are determined for predicted consumer usage where a predicted market of retail rate formulas for the period are predicted in relation to at least one variable, such as weather.

Claims (20)

1. A computer-implemented method for predictive management of retail electric utility service to a facility to select uninterrupted service for a period from a plurality of retail electric utility service providers to the facility, said method comprising:

first determining, by a processor, retail rate formulas for a market comprising a plurality of retail electric utility service providers available to provide service to the facility, by analyzing retail rate information for the plurality of retail electric utility service providers;

predicting, by a processor, retail rate formulas including retail rate plan choices for the market of retail electric utility service providers for the period;

predicting, by a processor, consumer usage of retail electric utility service for the period;

displaying, by a processor, a graphical representation of a plurality of uninterrupted cost paths from a plurality of predicted retail rate plan choices for the period;

first selecting, by a processor, a plurality of retail electric utility service providers providing an uninterrupted least cost path from a plurality of predicted retail rate plan choices for the plurality of retail electric utility service providers for the period; and

second determining, by a processor, a retail electric utility service provider selection further comprising a retail utility service contract selection corresponding to the first selected uninterrupted least cost path.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

the first selecting performed for each of a time series of decision nodes for the period.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

switching, by a processor, to said retail utility service contract selection by automated execution of contract documentation by an agent execution system in communication with a selected retail electric utility service provider, said automated execution authorizing said selected retail electric utility service provider to deliver retail electric utility service to a meter at the facility.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

wherein the first selecting further comprises determining possible viable paths by applying heuristics to reduce computation burden by eliminating non-viable paths from consideration.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

correlating, by a processor, each one of the plurality of retail rate formulas to weather information;

weather predicting, by a processor, a weather prediction for the facility for the period;

rate predicting, by a processor, retail rate formulas for the market of retail electric utility service providers for the period in relation to the weather prediction;

usage predicting, by a processor, consumer usage of retail electric utility service for the period in relation to the weather prediction.

6. A system configured to perform the computer-implemented method of claim 1 .

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium including executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a computer-implemented method according to claim 1 .

Continuity (7)
Continuation 17872559 · Jul 25, 2022
Continuation 17077527 · Oct 22, 2020
Continuation 16037225 · Jul 17, 2018
Continuation In Part 16008778 · Jun 14, 2018
Continuation 14880268 · Oct 11, 2015
Provisional Application 62036019 · Aug 11, 2014
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