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Apparatus and method for occupancy based demand response dispatch prioritization

  • US 10,324,435 B2
  • Filed: 05/03/2016
  • Issued: 06/18/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for prioritizing a demand response program event based on occupancy for one or more buildings of one or more building types participating in a demand response program, the apparatus comprising:

  • a network operations center, comprising a central processing unit, transitory memory, and non-transitory read-only memory having computer code disposed therein, said computer code comprising;

    a first application program, executable to perform functions of an occupancy estimator, configured to receive energy consumption and outside temperature streams Ei(h,T) corresponding to a portion of the one or more buildings, and configured to employ occupancy components for each of the one or more buildings within said portion to process said streams, and configured to generate occupancy levels corresponding to the one or more buildings within said portion, wherein said occupancy components and said occupancy levels are generated by exclusively processing said streams, and configured to assign said occupancy levels to remaining ones of the one or more buildings not in said portion, said occupancy components comprising;

    a lower bound of energy consumption, ζ

    (T), as a function of outside temperature, T, when a corresponding one of said one or more buildings is at minimum occupancy;

    a normalized occupancy profile component, ƒ

    (h) as a function of a prescribed time increment, h;

    a marginal energy consumption component, D(T) as a function of T; and

    a daily occupancy level component, γ

    i for each of a first plurality of days, i;

    wherein γ

    i is determined according to the following equation;

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