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US20120054123 |
HOT WATER HEATER WITH AN INTEGRATED FLOW METER
An apparatus and method are disclosed that monitors water of a water heating and storage system. At least one flow meter is integrated within the system having a tank for storing water to be...
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US20120066154 |
WIND-POWERED TRANSPORTATION AND ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM
A wind-powered system and method provides for simultaneous electrical generation and transportation of persons or cargo. A set of cables are strung between a plurality of rigid, upright supports,...
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US20110191267 |
Water Distribution Systems
A method for use in the design of a water distribution by determining whether to locate a pressure reducing valve (PRV) in a given location.
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US20110305326 |
ENHANCEMENT OF SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-USER REAL-TIME SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM
This invention involves additional details and uses for the invention described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 Simultaneous Multi-User Real-Time Speech Recognition System file by Poirier. The patent...
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US20100324962 |
SMART BUILDING MANAGER
A building manager includes a communications interface configured to receive information from a smart energy grid. The building manager further includes an integrated control layer configured to...
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US20110270783 |
TRIGGER-BASED APPLICATION CONTROL
Trigger-based application control may be provided. A work implement may receive an application trigger comprising a location-based condition. In response to determining that the work implement has...
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US20110071960 |
System For Monitoring Optimal Equipment Operating Parameters
A method includes obtaining a present value of a set point for at least one piece of equipment with a remote monitor in communication with a controller that controls the at least one piece of...
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US20120083930 |
ADAPTIVE LOAD MANAGEMENT: A SYSTEM FOR INCORPORATING CUSTOMER ELECTRICAL DEMAND INFORMATION FOR DEMAND AND SUPPLY SIDE ENERGY MANAGEMENT
A method for determining an amount of electricity to purchase includes determining electrical power consumption characteristics of an electrical load at an end user of the electricity. A preference...
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US20110016063 |
SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SMART CHARGING TECHNIQUES
A system and methods that enables smart charging techniques. A smart charging method may include periodically updated schedules. In addition, a smart charging method may include schedules with...
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US20120065789 |
DETERMINING ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN A STRUCTURE
Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for measuring the supply of a consumable product/energy source, such as electrical power, to a facility over time and analyzing the measurements to...
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US20120005126 |
CHARGING/DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND CHARGING/DISCHARGING METHOD
Disclosed is a charging/discharging apparatus and charging/discharging method. According to the present disclosure, a user can suitably control a battery charging/discharging under a price changing...
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US20100324748 |
Building Optimization Platform And Web-Based Invoicing System
A building management and optimization system and method are disclosed. Building services data obtained at the building is received by a building optimization platform through a first communication...
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US20110166913 |
ENERGY CONSUMPTION REPORTING AND MODIFICATION SYSTEM
Provided are methods and apparatus that determine a benchmark of energy consumption for an energy system and utilize the determined benchmark in a variety of ways. Once determined, the determined...
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US20110202193 |
Managing Power Utilized Within A Local Power Network
Power utilized in a local power network may be managed. The local power network may include a power management system. The power management system may communicate with one or more of a circuit...
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US20110225016 |
CONSTRAINED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Implementation of resource management services is provided. A method includes setting a price, per unit of a resource, for a defined time period and based upon a collective projected resource...
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US20070185729 |
System for negotiating green tags or fixed price energy contracts
The present invention describes a method for encouraging the production and use of electricity from renewable energy sources. A clearing house is established for facilitating various agreements and...
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US20110264605 |
SMART SERVER AND SMART DEVICE
A smart server and smart device are disclosed, by which a new power unit price (hereinafter named a combined power unit price) can be calculated in consideration of an internally generated...
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US20120078687 |
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOWEST COST AGGREGATE ENERGY DEMAND REDUCTION
A method, apparatus and computer program product for determining lowest cost aggregate energy demand reduction at multiple network levels such as distribution and feeder networks. An algorithm for...
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US20110218894 |
Variable Taxation System and Method
A variable taxation/variable goods control system includes a consumer database populated with a plurality of consumers, a goods database populated with one or more goods limits for a predetermined...
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US20090312969 |
SYSTEM TO MAKE CONSUMERS AWARE OF ELECTRICITY USAGE
Energy usage of a plurality of appliances is measured using a single meter. A pattern of energy usage with respect to the plurality of appliances is determined dependent upon the measured energy...
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US20070174219 |
Renewable energy usage fee
A method of collecting, analyzing, calculating and comparing the production of electricity by a renewable energy device; said renewable energy device is capable of having the amount the production...
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US20110161250 |
DISTRIBUTED ENERGY GENERATOR MONITOR AND METHOD OF USE
A computerized method and system for monitoring at least one distributed energy generator, comprising: receiving utility bill information related to an existing utility of a customer, and measured...
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US20120036091 |
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED, RANGE-BASED IRRIGATION
A centralized irrigation system provides non-decision-making controllers in combination with a client server architecture that employs irrigation algorithms for monitoring and control. Live...
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US20060253407 |
Monitoring system for an evaporative credit program
A method of monitoring an evaporative credit program is provided in which a water meter reading of a utility service customer is received. An actual compliance index is determined based on the...
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US20110119104 |
INDIVIDUALIZED BEHAVIOR-BASED SERVICE BUNDLING AND PRICING
A method and system analyze service applications being utilized within a computerized network environment using an analytics module of a computerized device to produce operational information of...
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US20080294452 |
Managing Supply of a Utility to a Customer Premises
The invention provides a method of managing supply of a utility to a customer premises. A utility meter and a disconnect switch are installed at the customer premises. A management system remote...
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US20100010924 |
ENERGY CREDIT HARVESTING
The harvesting of energy credits due to the transformation of a real estate property. The transformation results in improved energy usage of the real estate property, resulting in energy credits...
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US20100299284 |
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING UTILITY USAGE AND PRICING INFORMATION TO A CUSTOMER
Methods and systems are provided for providing electricity usage information to a customer using a market-based pricing plan. According to various embodiments of the invention, this usage...
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US20070179855 |
System for optimizing energy purchase decisions
A method of determining an optimal energy portfolio for a customer includes: quantifying the customer's risk/reward profile; obtaining customer data, including historical and forward customer data,...
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US20080103993 |
Method for providing energy to a building using utility-compatible distributed generation equipment
A method for providing energy to a building using utility-compatible distributed generation equipment. In accordance with the method, a building owner leases space in a building to an energy...
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US20110258063 |
POWER GENERATION LEVELING SYSTEM AND POWER GENERATION LEVELING METHOD
A communication part of a purchased power management device transmits, in response to an instruction from a user, rate information indicating a rate of power that the user wants to purchase to a...
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US20110191265 |
ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION HOST DEFINABLE PRICING
An electric vehicle charging station network includes multiple electric vehicle charging stations belonging to multiple charging station hosts. Each host controls one or more charging stations. A...
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US20080091626 |
Systems, methods and financial instruments for renewable energy consumer premises equipment financing
The present invention teaches a variety of systems, methods and financial instruments for financing renewable energy consumer premises equipment (CPE). The present invention contemplates, for...
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US20090177594 |
Method for rewarding water conservation and generating additional revenue for hotels
A method for rewarding hotel guests for conserving water and for generating additional revenue for hotels is disclosed. A water flow control device that regulates the amount of water flowing...
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US20080154800 |
REPORTING AND BILLING SYSTEM FOR CLEAN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE
Disclosed is a method and system for providing reporting and billing information in an installed energy roadway system. Newer alternative energy gathering systems will need state of the art...
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US20090063369 |
AUTOMATICALLY REFRESHING TAILORED PRICING FOR RETAIL ENERGY MARKET
Methods and systems for managing product development processes are provided. A method for providing energy pricing includes receiving a pricing component. The method also includes automatically...
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US20110295610 |
METHOD FOR CONFIGURING INSTALLATION CAPACITIES OF HYBRID ENERGY GENERATION SYSTEM
A method for installation capacities of a hybrid energy generation system is disclosed. The hybrid energy generation system may include a plurality of power systems. According to the environment...
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US20090012651 |
Including Energy Price in Optimizing Refrigerant System Operation
An HVAC & R system controller is provided with time pricing information for electricity and/or natural gas. This pricing information is utilized to determine the most efficient system configuration...
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US20080154802 |
Utility product usage internet access
A method for providing additional information to utility product users based on an assemblage of utility product consumption data and utility product consumption billing of users data supplied to...
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US20120022700 |
AUTOMATED FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSTICS IN A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Systems and methods for building automation system management are shown and described. The systems and methods relate to fault detection via abnormal energy monitoring and detection. The systems...
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US20080091625 |
Billing and payment methods and systems enabling consumer premises equipment
The present invention teaches a variety of systems and methods enabling renewable energy consumer premises equipment (CPE) such as dual metering techniques. The present invention contemplates,...
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US20110035338 |
INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING USER-AUTHENTICATING CAPABILITIES
An intelligent electronic device (IED) includes a user authentication module configured for authenticating authorized users of the IED and preventing an access by non-authorized personnel to a...
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US20050119930 |
Combined scheduling and management of work orders, such as for utility meter reading and utility servicing events
A system and method manages work requests used in reading and servicing gas, electric, or water meters in a utility system. A work request may originate at a utility system and is received at a...
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US20110137826 |
SYNCHRONIZING A COST ESTIMATE ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE
A method for synchronizing a cost estimate on an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining an estimated usage by an electronic device. The method also includes obtaining an...
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US20070260562 |
System and method for prepay account management system
A prepay account management system comprises a secure data link operable to transmit a prepay customer account and meter data, a prepay server operable to receive the transmitted customer account...
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US20110047102 |
VEHICLE BATTERY CHARGING SYSTEM AND METHOD
A vehicle may include at least one controller and a battery configured to be selectively charged with energy from an off-board energy source. The at least one controller may be configured to...
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US20100057641 |
ANALYSIS OF ENERGY-RELATED FACTORS FOR SELECTING COMPUTATIONAL JOB LOCATIONS
The selection of an optimal data center location for running a computational workload is based on multiple energy criteria. The location is chosen based on multivariate and predictive analysis of...
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US20110029460 |
Conservation friendly water & water reclamation utility rate structure
The present invention provides a stepwise method to transform and improve a Water and/or Water Reclamation Utility rate structure. Schedules of charges that customers pay for their water and water...
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US20110055116 |
OPERATIONALIZING A POWER USAGE MONITORING SYSTEM
A monitoring system capable of being operationalized. Power consumption is electrical devices is monitored by the use of new and innovative consumption power monitoring device in accordance with...
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US20080177678 |
METHOD OF COMMUNICATING BETWEEN A UTILITY AND ITS CUSTOMER LOCATIONS
A method for communicating between a utility and individual customer locations includes the step of communicating between the utility and customers and between the utility and customer equipment...
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