Business management system and method for a deregulated electric power market using workspace portals.

• US 20030041039A1
• Filed: 05/10/2002
• Published: 02/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens Power Generation, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Siemens Power Generation, Inc.
• Inventors: Hasling, William, Spool, Peter R., Soni, Dilip, Masticola, Stephen, Landi, William
• Application Number:
  US10/143,199
• Publication Number:
  US 20030041039A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/412
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/008 involving trading of energy or energy transmission rights
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/30 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for improving the carbon footprint of the management of residential or tertiary loads, i.e. smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the buildings sector, including also the last stages of power distribution and the control, monitoring or operating management systems at local level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/70 Smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the energy generation sector
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/80 Management or planning
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/50 Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/20 End-user application control systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

A business management system with interaction between an electrical energy supplier and a plurality of customer energy consumers, comprises: an interactive flow of information between the supplier and the consumers so as to optimize efficient use of resources for power generation, distribution, and consumption by appropriate actions from among price adjustments, inducements, specials, production rates, maintenance rescheduling, load shedding and apportionment of excess power, by consideration of available power and resources, together with historical consumption records and present data; the supplier and consumers having respective staffs with personnel for performing functions associated with the system, and each of the staff having a respective Web-based portal for use in interacting with other staff members in associated portions of the system. The method is likewise applicable to other commodities such as a water supply, fuel gas supply, or the like.

Claims

1. A business management system with interaction between an electrical energy supplier and a plurality of customer energy consumers, said system comprising:

an interactive flow of information between said supplier and said consumers so as to optimize efficient use of resources for power generation, distribution, and consumption by appropriate actions from among price adjustments, inducements, specials, production rates, maintenance rescheduling, load shedding and apportionment of excess power, by consideration of available power and resources, together with historical consumption records and present data;

said supplier and consumers having respective staffs with personnel for performing functions associated with said system, and

each of said staff having a respective Web-based portal for use in interacting with other staff members in associated portions of the system.

2. A business management system as recited in claim 1, wherein said staff comprises at least a portion of:

a production engineer, a comptroller, a sales staff member, a sales manager, a maintenance manager, and a marketing manager;

3. A business management system as recited in claim 1, wherein each of said portals provides information required by the respective staff member user thereof and does not provide non-relevant, peripheral information.

4. A business management system as recited in claim 1, wherein each of said portals is extended to trading partners of said supplier and said consumers through extranets.