POWER SYSTEM
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Abstract
A computer implemented system and method for demand management in an energy supply network including aggregation of energy use modification offers from energy consumers in order to meet value offers from energy suppliers.
16 Citations
41 Claims
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18. A computer implemented system for demand management in an energy supply network, the system being configured to:
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a. receive a price offer from an energy retailer, the price offer including; (1) a consumption change requirement representing a change in energy consumption requested of energy consumers, and (2) an offered price representing value to be given to the energy consumers in return for the required consumption change; b. receive consumption offers from several energy consumers, each consumption offer including; (1) a consumption change offer representing energy consumption limitations that an energy consumer would accept for one or more energy-consuming devices, and (2) a price requirement representing value required by the energy consumer in return for the energy consumption limitations; c. produce an aggregated consumption offer from selected consumption offers which have; (1) price requirements which are cumulatively less than or equal to the offered price of the price offer, and (2) consumption change offers which are cumulatively greater than or equal to the consumption change requirement of the price offer. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A method for demand management in an energy supply network including the steps of:
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a. collecting price offers from energy retailers, each price offer including; (1) a consumption change requirement representing a change in energy consumption requested of energy consumers, and (2) an offered price representing value to be given to the energy consumers in return for the required consumption change; b. collecting consumption offers from energy consumers, each consumption offer including; (1) a consumption change offer representing energy consumption limitations that an energy consumer would accept for one or more energy-consuming devices, and (2) a price requirement representing value required by the energy consumer in return for the energy consumption limitations; c. aggregating consumption offers from one or more selected energy consumers such that; (1) the sum of the consumption change offers is at least as great as the consumption change requirement, and (2) the offered price is at least as great as the sum of the price requirements. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35)
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36. A hub device configured to:
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a. receive energy usage data from an energy-consuming device; b. receive energy cost data characterizing the cost of energy used by the energy-consuming device at the time of usage; c. at least partially control the operation of the energy-consuming device in a manner whereby the device'"'"'s cost of energy usage is reduced. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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