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7639129 |
Automated configuration of a power monitoring system using hierarchical context
Methods of automatically configuring a power monitoring system based upon the locations of the monitoring devices in a hierarchy representing the spatial interrelationships of the monitoring...
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7636666 |
Gas-energy observatory
A method for generating a home energy efficiency label based on real-time measurements of gas-energy usage of a household and outside temperature data. The home energy efficiency label is...
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7617011 |
Automation system
An automation system includes at least one device that detects measured values and is connected to a automated process, at least one field device connected to the at least one device detecting...
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7615294 |
Methods of removing contaminants from a fuel cell electrode
A method of optimizing a waveform of an electrical current applied to an electrode of an elecetrochemical device that includes at least two electrodes separated by an electrolyte, includes the...
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7613549 |
Approach for managing power consumption in buildings
An approach for managing power consumption in a building includes receiving a signal that indicates that a user has entered or left the building. In response to receiving the signal, one or more...
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7589435 |
Reporting power requirements of a powered device
In one embodiment, a powered device is configured to determine module population and the appropriate power requirements for installed modules. The power requirements can be communicated to the...
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7590499 |
Recording and conveying energy consumption and power information
Aspects of the invention provide apparatuses, methods, and systems that support measuring and conveying energy consumption by an electrical device. An apparatus includes an energy sensor that...
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7590472 |
Energy arbitrage by load shifting
Methods and systems are provided for realizing energy cost savings through load shifting utilizing a battery bank that may serve as a battery back-up on a premises for providing power in the event...
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7567859 |
Methods and apparatuses for control of building cooling, heating and power co-generation systems
A control system and method for achieving economic operation of CHP systems. A plurality of factors, including power source prices and operational needs, are assessed using multiple strategies. The...
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7565227 |
Multi-building control for demand response power usage control
An energy usage coordinator controls the energy usage of individual buildings of a group (or portfolio) of buildings in one or more load zones. These buildings have all contracted with an energy...
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7557729 |
Method and system for validation, estimation and editing of daily meter read data
A method for processing daily consumption, demand and time of use meter reads for electric, gas, water and other metered entities. The meter reads are collected by any of the well known Automated...
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7551984 |
Method of tracking power outages
A method for analyzing historical outages at the customer level for the purposes of determining root-cause and possible corrective actions is described herein. The present invention enables a...
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7552033 |
System and method for diagnostically evaluating energy consumption systems and components of a facility
A method for diagnostically evaluating energy consumption of a facility includes receiving energy consumption data associated with the facility, generating facility data associated with the...
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7545285 |
Load control unit in communication with a fixed network meter reading system
A load control system that communicates with existing automated meter reading communications systems to interrupt and shed loads at a customer location. The system includes a master controller that...
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7542824 |
Air conditioning control device
An air conditioning control device is configured to obtain and control data on an air conditioner, which includes a plurality of indoor units. The air conditioning control device includes a data...
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7532955 |
Distributed protection system for power distribution systems
There is disclosed a protection system for a power distribution system having a plurality of breakers arranged in a hierarchy. The protection system has a network and a breaker coupled to the power...
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7526393 |
Virtual branch load management
A load estimation algorithm for automatically estimating power consumed by each branch load connected to circuit breakers in a power distribution panel (PDP) without requiring individual current...
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7523001 |
Method and apparatus for operating wind turbine generators
A method of operating a wind farm that includes a plurality of wind turbine generators (WTGs) includes generating wind turbine generator (WTG) availability data for each WTG. The method also...
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7519453 |
Energy distribution network
A hydrogen energy system for a facility that is disposed off-board a vehicle. The system includes a hydrogen generator disposed at the facility for generating hydrogen by water electrolysis, a...
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7519506 |
System and method for monitoring and managing electrical power transmission and distribution networks
A system and method for monitoring and managing electrical power transmission and distribution networks through use of a deterministic, non-iterative method using an holomorphic embedding and...
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7519438 |
Method and a tool for calculating and displaying fault response tolerances for a power switching device
A method and tool for an integrated power switching device configuration tool and fault response tolerance calculator determines the fault response tolerance characteristics of a power switching...
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7509190 |
Method for administering an intermittent uncontrollable electric power generating facility
A method for administering an intermittent source of electrical power generation, such as a wind powered electric power generating facility, to produce electric power at a level up to a pre-set...
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7505833 |
System, method, and article of manufacture for controlling operation of an electrical power generation system
A system, a method, and an article of manufacture for controlling operation of an electrical power generation system are provided. The electrical power generation system has a plurality of...
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7489989 |
System for dispatching and controlling of generation in large-scale electric power systems
A system for dispatching and controlling generation in an electric power system consisting of a plurality of power units comprises a computer with dispatching optimization module connected by...
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7489990 |
Systems and methods for calculating and predicting near term production cost, incremental heat rate, capacity and emissions of electric generation power plants based on current operating and, optionally, atmospheric conditions
Systems and methods for calculating and predicting performance characteristics, incremental heat rate, capacity, incremental costs, production cost and emissions, for electric power generation...
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7489988 |
Generator control system, generating apparatus control method, program and record medium
In the case where a user changes a set state of apparatuses, an apparatus operation control portion repressively controls the apparatuses, in spite of an instruction of a control signal according...
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7454270 |
Dynamic economic dispatch for the management of a power distribution system
A method and system for dispatching available generation resources to supply a given load in a control area. Generating units are each assigned a temporal trajectory of output power over...
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7451017 |
Energy and cost savings calculation system
An Energy and Cost Savings Calculation System is provided that automates the determination of energy and cost savings due to energy conservation measures. The system provides Multi-Variant,...
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7444189 |
Method and apparatus for simultaneous optimization of distributed generation and hydrogen production
An energy optimization method and control apparatus may be used in a single building or a group of buildings to optimize utility-supplied and renewable sources in order to minimize the total energy...
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7437216 |
Method for controlling a wind energy turbine of a wind park comprising multiple wind energy turbines
The method for controlling a first wind energy turbine of a wind park comprising multiple wind energy turbines connected to the grid, in situations where the first energy turbine operates...
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7430502 |
Using thermal management register to simulate processor performance states
Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with simulating a processor performance state by controlling a thermal management signal are described. One exemplary system...
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7430545 |
Power supply/demand control system
In order to effectively supply and demand electric power between an electric power supplier and a node or a group of nodes individually having an electric power generator, the present invention...
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7426454 |
Method and system for determining a location of a wind-powered electrical energy facility
A method for determining a location of a conversion device for converting wind energy into electrical energy comprises establishing a plurality of data layers, including at least a wind data layer...
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7424343 |
Method and apparatus for load reduction in an electric power system
A system for load control in an electrical power system is described, wherein one or more data interface devices are provided to a cooling system. The data interface devices are configured to...
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7412338 |
Radio frequency device within an energy sensor system
An energy measurement system including a radio frequency (“RF”) device powered by a solar panel. The RF device comprising a wireless communication port operative to transmit and receive...
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7406364 |
Method and system to calculate a demand for energy
A method to calculate energy demand in an energy generation, transmission and distribution network including one or more power plants based on different energy source types including renewable...
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7403854 |
Method and apparatus for determining wind farm electricity production
A method and apparatus for providing wind farm electricity production values is described. Such an arrangement is useful in providing an indication of potential electricity production values from a...
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7398194 |
Distributed energy resources
An improved method for analyzing power systems; in particular, power systems that may incorporate distributed energy resources (DER), that provides a thorough determination of the potential for...
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7392661 |
Energy usage estimation for climate control system
An HVAC system controller which estimates the energy cost or savings incurred due to a user-instigated change in a climate control schedule. The HVAC system controller is adapted to operate a...
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7392115 |
Characterization of utility demand using utility demand footprint
Utility demand is continuously monitored and monitoring data is aggregated and organized. The results are presented visually as a Utility Demand Footprint, referred to herein as a UDF. A UDF...
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7389159 |
Control algorithm for backup power system
A method for controlling fossil fuel fired heating systems according to an improved adaptive cyclical control method when operating on backup (auxiliary DC) electrical power. Battery life is...
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7388303 |
Stand-alone electrical system for large motor loads
An electrical power system that can be used to interconnect a plurality of generators to a plurality to loads while being rated at less than a total power consumed. The system is preferably used to...
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7386421 |
Control system and lighting control system
The invention judges whether or not the relation between an illumination at a desired position and a target illumination satisfies a predetermined condition, and causes the illumination at the...
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7376490 |
Operational control device, operational control method, program and storage medium thereof, for a plurality of power consumption systems
A operational control device for supplying electric power from an electric power equipment to a plurality of power consumption systems store a power consumption pattern for each of the power...
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7373221 |
Energy consumption monitoring
A system for analysing energy usage on a network, such as an electricity network ( 4 ) which includes a number of energy sources ( 1, 2, 3 ) and a number of energy consumers ( 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 )...
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7353083 |
Vanadium redox battery energy storage and power generation system incorporating and optimizing diesel engine generators
A power generation system includes a vanadium redox battery that interfaces with a control system to optimize performance and efficiency. The power generation system may include one or more wind...
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7349765 |
System and method for managing utility consumption
A system, method, and apparatus are disclosed for managing utility consumption. An embodiment is disclosed for reducing peak demand for a utility by staggering requests for that utility. Another...
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7343226 |
System and method of controlling an HVAC system
A system and method manage delivery of energy from a distribution network to one or more sites. Each site has at least one device coupled to the distribution network. The at least one device...
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7333861 |
Method and system for calculating marginal cost curves using plant control models
A method and system are provided for calculating a marginal cost curve for a plant at a plant load range comprising a plurality of specified plant loads. The method includes providing a model used...
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7321834 |
Method for calculating power flow solution of a power transmission network that includes interline power flow controller (IPFC)
Power flow models of Interline Power Flow Controllers (IPFC) for large-scale power systems are studied, in details. Mathematical models of the IPFC, using the d-q axis decompositions of control...
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