System and method for user control of electrical utility demand - side management

• US 20030074110A1
• Filed: 09/20/2002
• Published: 04/17/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lawrence A. Husick, Lawrence Silverman
• Original Assignee: Lawrence A. Husick, Lawrence Silverman
• Inventors: Silverman, Lawrence, Husick, Lawrence A.
• Application Number:
  US10/251,609
• Publication Number:
  US 20030074110A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/295
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/1905 associated with tele control
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00001 characterised by the display of information or by user interaction, e.g. supervisory control and data acquisition systems [SCADA] or graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/64 The condition being economic, e.g. tariff based load management
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/14 by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading
• 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: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/244 the home appliances being or involving heating ventilating and air conditioning [HVAC] units
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

A system and method for permitting an electrical utility'"'"'s customers (electric energy consumers) to control peak and off-peak use of electricity by providing rate information, billing information, and time/rate control capabilities in a compact user terminal.

Claims

1. A method for controlling energy-consuming loads having associated switching devices capable of controlling their associated loads responsive to received signals uniquely identifying said switching devices comprising the steps of:

a. displaying the identity of one or more loads having said associated switching devices to a user;

d. soliciting from said user a desired load behavior during each of a plurality of energy rate periods;

e. storing said user-desired load behaviors in a digital memory;

d. transmitting signals representative of said user-desired load behaviors from said digital memory to said switching devices associated with said loads;

e. controlling said loads in accordance with said transmitted signals.