METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE PROVISION OF AGGREGATE OFFERS OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY

• US 20160328809A1
• Filed: 04/12/2016
• Published: 11/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: LEBEAU, Bernard, MARCHAND, Jeremie
• Application Number:
  US15/096,490
• Publication Number:
  US 20160328809A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 13/021 in which a variable is automatically adjusted to optimise the performance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2203/20 Simulating, e g planning, reliability check, modelling or computer assisted design [CAD]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/008 involving trading of energy or energy transmission rights
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/28 Arrangements for balancing of the load in a network by storage of energy
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/70 Smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the energy generation sector
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• 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 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/20 Information technology specific aspects, e.g. CAD, simulation, modelling, system security
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

There are provided a method and a device for providing aggregate offers of electrical energy, on the basis of a plurality of loads and/or of sources of customer sites of an electrical network, the method including the reception of information relating to a provision of electrical power arising from the loads and/or sources of each customer site, and the determination of elementary blocks of electrical power, each elementary block being defined in two dimensions by a duration and an electrical power, followed by a spatial arranging of elementary blocks to obtain an aggregate block defined by an electrical power and a duration complying with a constraint selected from among a setpoint power or a setpoint duration, the spatial arranging step implementing a procedure for optimizing spatial filling of a block defined by a maximum power and a maximum duration, by elementary blocks.

Claims

1. A method for providing aggregate offers of electrical energy, each offer of electrical energy being defined by a power and a duration in a predetermined time interval, on the basis of a plurality of loads and/or of sources of customer sites of an electrical network, each customer site being able, for the predetermined time interval, to propose at least one elementary offer of reduction or provision of electrical power having an associated duration, corresponding to a reduction in electrical power consumption of a load of the site or to a provision of electrical energy by an electrical energy source of the site, the method comprising:

reception of information relating to a provision of electrical power arising from the loads and/or sources of each customer site, and determination for each customer site, of at least one elementary block of electrical power, each elementary block (BE_i) of power being defined in two dimensions by an associated duration (DEi) and an associated electrical power (PE_i); and

spatial arrangement of elementary power blocks to obtain an aggregate block defined by an electrical power (P) and a duration (D), the electrical power and/or the duration of the aggregate block complying with a constraint selected from among a setpoint power (P_c) or a setpoint duration (D_c),

the spatial arrangement step implementing a procedure for optimizing spatial filling of a block, defined by a maximum power (P_max) and a maximum duration (D_max), by elementary blocks.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the spatial filling optimization procedure is a filling procedure based on power levels of decreasing height, the height of each power level corresponding to the power of an elementary block belonging to the power level.

3. The method according to claim 2, comprising, prior to the implementation of the spatial filling optimization procedure, the elementary blocks by decreasing power.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the spatial filling optimization procedure is modified to permit an overshoot according to at least one of the dimensions of maximum duration (D_max) or of maximum power (P_max) of the block to be filled.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising a step of adjusting the aggregate block by rejecting an elementary block overshooting the duration (D) of the aggregate block, the overshoot of duration of the elementary block being greater than or equal to a predetermined percentage of the duration of the elementary block.

6. The method according to claim 1, comprising, after the implementation of the spatial filling optimization procedure, a step of rearrangement and/or re-slicing to obtain an aggregate block as a function of the selected constraint.

7. The method according to claim 6, in which the spatial arrangement of elementary blocks implements a plurality of power levels, arranged as a function of their height, comprising a step of searching for a power level whose associated power is the closest to the setpoint power value (P_c).

8. The method according to claim 7, comprising a step of minimizing a deficit of power of the aggregate block, comprising a progressive decreasing of the duration (D) of the aggregate block until the unfilled surface area of the aggregate block is less than or equal to a predetermined percentage of the total surface area of the aggregate block, making it possible to ensure a degree of power deficit of less than a predetermined value.

9. The method according to claim 6, in which the spatial arrangement of elementary blocks implements a plurality of power levels, arranged as a function of their height, comprising a step of calculating a degree of power deficit per power level, equal to a degree of unfilled surface area of the power level, and a rearrangement of the power levels in an increasing order of the degree of power deficit per power level.

10. The method according to claim 9, comprising, after the rearrangement of the power levels, a determination of the highest power level for which a quality criterion relating to the total deficit of power is complied with.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising determining at least one power level complying with a criterion of proximity with respect to the setpoint power (P_c), and a selection of a power of the aggregate block complying with both the criterion of proximity with respect to the setpoint power and the quality criterion relating to the total deficit of power.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the quality criterion relating to the total deficit of power imposes a degree of power deficit of the aggregate block of less than or equal to a predetermined value.

13. The method according to claim 1, further comprising updating the determined aggregate block, repeated at regular temporal instants.

14. A device for providing aggregate offers of electrical energy, each offer of electrical energy being defined by a power and a duration in a predetermined time interval, on the basis of a plurality of loads and/or of sources of customer sites of an electrical network, each customer site being able, for the predetermined time interval, to propose at least one elementary offer of reduction or provision of electrical power having an associated duration, corresponding to a reduction in electrical power consumption of a load of the site or to a provision of electrical energy by an electrical energy source of the site, comprising means configured for:

receiving information relating to a provision of electrical power arising from the loads and/or sources of each customer site, and determining, for each customer site, at least one elementary block of electrical power, each elementary block (BE_i) of power being defined in two dimensions by an associated duration (DE_i) and an associated electrical power (PE_i);

performing a spatial arrangement of elementary power blocks to obtain an aggregate block defined by an electrical power (P) and a duration (D), the electrical power and/or the duration of the aggregate block complying with a constraint selected from among a setpoint power (P_c) or a setpoint duration (D_c), the spatial arrangement implementing a procedure for optimizing spatial filling of a block, defined by a maximum power (P_max) and a maximum duration (D_max), by elementary blocks.

15. The device for providing aggregate offers of electrical energy according to claim 14, wherein the electrical power (P) and the duration (D) of the aggregate block are determined so as to comply with a quality criterion relating to a total deficit of power of the aggregate block.