DEMAND RESPONSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20160055433A1
• Filed: 11/03/2015
• Published: 02/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Koch, Edward
• Granted Patent: US 9,818,073 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/046 Forward inferencing; Production systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• 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: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• 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 40/18 Network protocols supporting networked applications, e.g. including control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

A demand response management system which may be implemented with demand response logic. The system may be used by utilities, independent system operators, intermediaries and others to manage operations of demand response programs relative to customers, clients, participants, and users of outputs from the utilities, independent system operators, and the like. Demand response logic of the demand response management system may provide demand signal propagation and generation from demand response events.

Claims

1. A demand response management system comprising:

a computer;

an input connected to the computer for receiving at least one demand response (DR) event indicative of a grid condition;

an output connected from the computer for providing one or more DR signals to a client having a DR resource connected to the grid in response to receiving at least one DR event; and

wherein;

a DR signal comprises information, if any, about an energy supply state, DR resource instructions, and/or DR resource load control commands; and

the information of a DR signal is customized according to participation rules of the client and is based, at least in part, on a received DR event.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer comprises DR logic which takes into account the participation rules of the client and the received DR event to produce the DR signal.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein information about an energy supply state includes one or more of prices of electricity, sources of energy generation, carbon content of energy, and reliability of grid conditions.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein DR resource instructions specify one or more of specific consumption levels, dispatch instructions, and load profiles for one or more DR resources of the client.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the DR resource load control commands are sent to a controller of a DR resource load to adjust a load profile of the DR resource.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein information about a DR event is customized according to one or more variables selected from a group consisting of bids, sheds, prices, demands, and usage.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a table of rules for customizing a schedule of the DR event for the client, for customizing information of the DR event for the client, and for translating information of the DR event to a form appropriate for the client.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein:

the rules are in a form of Boolean equations; and

if all conditions of a rule are true, then a predetermined operation is effected.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the DR signal is sent to an energy management and control (EMCS) system of the client and the EMCS system processes the DR signal into one or more facility wide load profile objectives and/or load control commands.

10. A demand response management system comprising:

one or more demand response (DR) events from a utility and/or independent service operator to a computer having an input;

a customizer for modifying a schedule of the one or more DR events to conform as needed to a schedule of a client and/or for modifying information about the one or more DR events;

a translator for translating information about the one or more DR events into a client-specified level in one or more DR signals; and

an output of the computer for providing the one or more DR signals incorporating the schedule of the one or more DR events as modified, information about the one or more DR events as modified, and/or information as translated for the client.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the modifying a schedule of the one or more DR events is according to participation rules of the client.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the modifying information about the one or more DR events is according to bids, sheds, prices, usage, and demand.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the translating the information about the DR events is according to preferences and translation rules of the client.

14. A mechanism for demand response management comprising:

a computer having demand resource (DR) logic;

a source of one or more DR events, connected to the computer; and

a DR resource of a customer, connected to the computer; and

wherein;

the DR logic generates a DR signal to the customer with information associated with a DR event;

the DR logic transforms information associated with the DR event into a specific form for the DR resource based on participation rules of the customer including preferences and/or translation rules.

15. The mechanism of claim 14, wherein:

information associated with the DR event is translated into a finite set of levels; and

the levels are translated by DR logic at a customer into load control commands for the DR resource.

16. The mechanism of claim 15, wherein the finite set of levels comprises normal, moderate and high.

17. The mechanism of claim 14, wherein:

the computer receives feedback from the customer; and

the computer modifies information associated with a DR event of a generated DR signal in response to the received feedback.

18. The mechanism of claim 14, wherein:

the information associated with the DR event is customized according to one or more variables; and

the one or more variables comprise an item or items selected from a group consisting of bids,

schedules, sheds, prices, demands, and usage.

19. The mechanism of claim 14, wherein:

a schedule of the DR event is customized for the customer; and

a price in the DR signal is customized for the customer.

20. The mechanism of claim 14, further comprising a utility/independent service operator connected to the computer to provide the DR event.