MANAGEMENT OF THE ENERGY SUPPLY FOR A LOCAL ENERGY TRANSPORT NETWORK

• US 20140088785A1
• Filed: 01/24/2012
• Published: 03/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Massoulie, Laurent, Keshav, Srinivasan, Hegde, Nidhi, Salonidis, Theodoros
• Application Number:
  US13/980,971
• Publication Number:
  US 20140088785A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/296
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 55/00 Arrangements for supplying energy stored within a vehicle to a power network, i.e. vehicle-to-grid [V2G] arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/32 Means for saving power
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/008 involving trading of energy or energy transmission rights
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/322 the battery being on-board an electric or hybrid vehicle, e.g. vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G], power aggregation, use of the battery for network load balancing, coordinated or cooperative battery charging
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/00 Circuit arrangements for emergency or stand-by power supply, e.g. for emergency lighting
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/167 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/126 the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for managing the supply of energy of a client device connected to an energy transport network, said system comprising a switching device connected to said network, said system comprising an energy storage means connected to said network via the switching device, wherein the switching device is able to be configured according to three configuration modes, the system also comprising a control device comprising means for comparing a level of energy stored in the storage means and a local threshold of charge of the storage means and means for determining and assigning to the switching device a configuration mode from among the three configuration modes according to the result of said comparison.

Claims

1. System for managing the supply of energy of a client device connected to an energy transport network, said system comprising a switching device connected to said network, the client device being able to be supplied with energy via the switching device, said network receiving energy according to a tariff schedule (q_T1, . . . , q_Tj, . . . , q_Tm) according to which the time is decomposed into successive time intervals, each time interval being divided into a number m greater than or equal to 2 of successive time periods during each of which said energy is billed at a price corresponding to said period.

said system comprising an energy storage means connected to said network via the switching device,

wherein the switching device is able to be configured according to:

a first configuration mode wherein the energy storage means supplies energy to the client device;

or

a second configuration mode wherein the energy received simultaneously by the client device and the energy storage means;

or

a third configuration mode wherein the energy is received exclusively by the client device;

the system also comprising a control device comprising means for comparing an instantaneous level of energy stored in the storage means and a local threshold of charge of the storage means associated with each time period and means for determining and assigning to the switching device a configuration mode from among the first, second and third configuration modes according to the result of said comparison,

2. System according to claim 1, wherein the control device comprises means for comparing the instantaneous level of energy stored in the storage means at the start of the time period and a first and a second current thresholds of charge of the storage means associated with each time period and means for determining the local threshold from the result of said comparison.

3. System according to claim 1, wherein the means for determining and assigning are able to determine and assign to the switching device when the client device requires energy:

the first mode when the instantaneous level of energy is strictly greater than the local threshold;

the second mode when the instantaneous level of energy is strictly less than the local threshold ;

the third mode when the instantaneous level of energy is equal to the local threshold.

4. System according to claim 1, wherein the switching device is able to deliver to the control device at the end of each time period, a first level of energy received by the client device and a second level of energy received by the energy storage means during said time period.

5. System according to claim 1, wherein the control device is adapted to determine a first vector of n elements which correspond to the energy prices of the tariff schedule classified according to an increasing order, and two second vectors of n elements which are thresholds of charge of the storage means associated with the prices p₁, . . . , p_i, . . . , p_n, where i is an integer comprised between 1 and n, the control device also being adapted to determine the first and the second current thresholds from the first and second vectors and from said tariff schedule.

6. System according to claim 5, wherein the control device comprises means for updating, at the end of each time interval, the value of the elements of the two second vectors from a result of comparison between a real cost of the supply of a total level of energy and 2n fictitious costs, where the total level is equal to the sum of the first level of energy and the second level of energy during said time periods and where the fictitious costs result from 2n simulations performed by the control devices of the cost of a supply of energy to said system, by considering a level of energy received by the client device during said time periods equal to the first level of energy and by successively considering 2n associations (V1, V2LF2_i, V2LF2_i), (V1, V2HF2_i, V2HF2_i) composed of the first vector V1 and of a fictitious second vector VLF2_i, VHF2_i where the fictitious second vector VLF2_i comprises n elements LTL₁, . . . , HTL_i+δ

, . . . , HTL_n, and the fictitious second vector VHF2_i comprises n elements HTL₁, . . . , HTL_i+δ

, . . . , HTL_n, where d is a positive integer stored in the control device.

7. System according to claim 1, wherein the switching device is also able to be configured according to:

a fourth mode wherein the energy is supplied only to the energy storage means;

a fifth mode wherein no energy is supplied to the system;

and wherein, when the client device does not require the energy, the means for determining and assigning of the control device are able to determine and assign to the switching device ;

the fourth mode if the instantaneous level of energy is strictly less than the local threshold;

the fifth mode if the instantaneous level of energy is greater than or equal to the local threshold.

8. Control device for a system for managing the supply of energy of a client device connected to an energy transport network, the client device being able to be supplied with energy via a switching device connected to said network, said network receiving energy to a tariff schedule according to which the time is decomposed into successive time intervals, each time interval being divided into a number m greater than or equal to 2 of successive time periods during each of which said energy is billed at a price corresponding to said period, wherein it comprises:

a first means for receiving from the switching device at the end of each time period a first level of energy supplied to the client device and a second level of energy supplied to the energy storage means during said time period;

a second means which comprises an association of a first vector of n elements corresponding to the energy prices of the tariff schedule classified according to an increasing order and two second vectors each comprising n elements which are thresholds of charge of the storage means associated with prices, where i is an integer comprised between 1 and n, said second means also being configured to determine a first and a second current threshold of charge from said association and from said tariff schedule, said second means also being adapted to determine a local threshold of charge of the storage means from a comparison between an instantaneous level of energy stored in the energy storage means at the time period start and said first and second current thresholds associated with said time period;

a third means for determining and assigning in real time a configuration mode to the switching device on the basis of a comparison between;

the instantaneous level which said third means is able to receive in real time from said storage means; and

the value of the local threshold associated with said time period.

9. Control device according to claim 8, wherein the third means comprises:

a means for placing the switching device in a first configuration mode wherein the energy storage means supplies energy to the client device, when the client device requires energy and the instantaneous level of energy is strictly greater than the local threshold;

a means for placing the switching device in a second configuration mode wherein energy is supplied simultaneously to the client device and to the energy storage means, when the client device requires energy and when the instantaneous level of energy is strictly less than the local threshold;

a means for placing the switching device in a third configuration mode wherein energy is supplied exclusively to the client device, when the client device requires energy and when the instantaneous level of energy is equal to the local threshold.

10. Controi device according to claim 8, wherein the second means comprises:

a means for receiving the tariff schedule;

a means for evaluating, at the start of each time interval, the value of the elements of the first vector from said tariff schedule and the value of the elements of the second vectors;

by an initialization of the value of the elements of the second vectors when the value of all the elements of the first vector is modified with respect to the preceding time interval or during a first time interval;

by an assignation of the value of the i-1-th element of the second vector to the i-th element of the second vector when the value of the i-th element p_i of the first vector is modified with respect to the preceding time interval;

by an update of the value of the elements of the second vectors when the value of all the elements of the first vector is unchanged with respect to the preceding time interval.

11. Control device according to claim 10, also comprising:

a fourth means for evaluating at the end of each time period a first cost of the supply of energy during said time period of a total level of energy equal to the sum of the first level of energy and the second level of energy;

a fifth means for evaluating two sets of n second costs of the supply of energy to the energy storage means during said time period by considering a level of energy supplied to the client device during said time periods equal to the first level of energy, said fifth means simulating a functioning of the first, second and third means by successively considering 2n associations (V1, V2LF2, V2LF2_l, V1, V2HF2_i, V2HF2_i) composed of the first vector, and of a fictitious second vector VLF2_l, VHF2) where the fictitious second vector VLF2 comprises n elements LTL₁, . . . , LTL_l+δ

, . . . , LTL_n and the fictitious second vector VHF2_i comprises n elements HTL₁, . . . , HTL_l+δ

, . . . , HTL_n , where δ

is a positive integer stored in the second means M2;

a sixth means for summing the m first costs evaluated at the end of the time interval to obtain a real cost of supply of energy during said time eye interval;

a seventh means for summing said m seconds costs evaluated at the end of each time interval to obtain at least two sets of n fictitious costs of the supply of energy during said time interval;

an eighth means for comparing at the end of the time interval the value of the real cost and the value of each of the fictitious costs of said comparisons.

12. Control device according to claim 11, wherein the second means also comprises:

a means for receiving said results of said comparisons delivered by the eighth means;

a means for adding the value δ

to the value of the i-th element of the second vector stored in the first means when the result establishes that the value of the fictitious cost is strictly less than the value of the real cost;

a means for subtracting the value δ

from the value of the i-th element of the second vector stored in the first means when the result establishes that the vale of the fictitious cost is strictly greater than the value of the real cost.

13. Control device according to claim 8, wherein the third means also comprises:

a means for placing the switching device in a fourth mode wherein the energy is supplied only to the energy storage means, when the client device does not require energy and while the instantaneous level of energy is strictly less than the local threshold;

a means for placing the switching device in a fifth mode wherein no energy is supplied to the client device and to the energy storage means (PSD), when the client device does not require energy and when the instantaneous level of energy is greater than or equal to the local threshold.

14. Method for managing the supply of energy of a client device connected to an energy transport network, the client device being able to require energy via a switching device connected to said network, said network receiving energy via said switching device according to a tariff schedule according to which the time is decomposed into successive time intervals, each time interval being divided into a number m greater than or equal to 2 of successive time periods during each of which said energy is billed at a price corresponding to said period, an energy storage means being connected to said network via the switching device configured according to a first mode wherein the energy storage means supplies energy to the client device or a second mode wherein energy is supplied simultaneously to the client device and to the energy storage means, or a third mode wherein energy is supplied exclusively to the client device, wherein, at the control device, it comprises the steps of

receiving said tariff schedule;

continuously and in real time, receiving from the energy storage means an instantaneous level of energy stored in said energy storage means;

evaluating a number n of elements of a first vector from said tariff schedule and at the start of each time interval determining n elements of two second vectors associated with n elements of the first vector;

determining a first and a second current thresholds of charge of the storage means for said current period from the tariff schedule and from the association;

at each time period

determining an instantaneous level of energy at the start of the time period;

determining a local threshold of charge of the storage means from a comparison between the instantaneous level of energy stored in the storage means at the start of the time period and the first and second current thresholds of charge associated with the time period;

continuously and in real time, determining and assigning a configuration mode to the switching device in such a manner that the instantaneous level meets the local threshold.

15. Method according to claim 14, also comprising steps of:

evaluating the real cost of the supply of energy during said time interval covering said time periods;

evaluating 2n fictitious costs SGL of the supply of energy during said time interval covering said time periods from an evaluation of two sets of n second costs of the supply of energy to the energy storage device during said time period by considering a level of energy supplied to the client device during said time periods equal to the first level of energy, by successively considering 2n associations composed of the first vector and of a fictitious second vector VLF2_l, VHF2_i where the fictitious second vector VLF2 comprises n elements LTL₁, . . . , LTL_i+δ

, . . . , LTL_n and the fictitious second vector VHF2_i comprises n elements HTL₁, . . . , HTL_i+δ

,, . . . , HTL_n, where δ

is a positive integer stored in the control device;

comparing at the end of the time interval the value of the real cost and the value of each of the fictitious costs;

updating the value of the elements of the second vectors stored in the control means according to the results of said comparisons.