Systems and Methods for Managing Clean Energy Production and Credits

• US 20110016055A1
• Filed: 08/16/2010
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Joseph R. Mazzarella
• Original Assignee: Joseph R. Mazzarella
• Inventors: MAZZARELLA, Joseph R.
• Application Number:
  US12/856,787
• Publication Number:
  US 20110016055A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/317
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/018 Certifying business or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/004 Generation forecast, e.g. methods or systems for forecasting future energy generation
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/008 involving trading of energy or energy transmission rights
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/70 Smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the energy generation sector
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/40 Fuel cell technologies in production processes
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/845 Inventory and reporting systems for greenhouse gases [GHG]
• 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 50/10 Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

A system and method for energy efficient power production of local power production units is provided. The system includes a control server and a series of local power production interfaces that are coupled to local power production units. The control server is configured to control the power production of a plurality of local power production units based on emissions data of each of the local power production units. The control server tracks environmental, gas and particulate emissions from local power production units. The control server instructs local power production units to produce power based on emission characteristics. The control server further tracks the establishment of emission credits, and offers such credits for sale or exchange. In embodiments, local power production units include one or more of fuel cells, microturbines, solar electrical generating devices and wind based electrical generating devices.

Claims

1. A system for managing emission credits, comprising:

a control server configured to control the power production of a plurality of local power production units based on emissions data of each of the local power production units; and

a plurality of local power production interface units coupled to the control server configured to provide emissions data to the control server.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the control server is further configured to track particulate emissions from local power production units.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the control server is further configured to determine emission credits associated with one or more local power production units and offer for sale or exchange the emission credits.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the control server is further configured to establish a plurality of operational nodes comprising one or more local power production units, wherein the control server is configured to dynamically add or remove local power production units from an operational node based on environmental factors.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the control server if further configured to establish an operational node of local power production units based on power line loss considerations.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the control server is further configured to determine the efficiency of fuel consumption for each local power production unit based on emissions data received by the control server from the local power production interface units.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of interfaces to local power usage meters for monitoring local power consumption associated with a local power production unit.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the local power usage meters include one or more of an electrical meter, gas pressure meter, and fuel consumption meter.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the local power production units comprise one or more of fuel cells, microturbines, solar electrical generating devices and wind based electrical generating devices.