DISTRIBUTED GENERATOR AUTOMATIC PROVISIONING

• US 20170141575A1
• Filed: 11/13/2015
• Published: 05/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Infinite Invention Inc.
• Original Assignee: Infinite Invention LLC
• Inventors: Fulton, Whitman, Koeppel, Adam
• Granted Patent: US 10,431,986 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00016 using a wired telecommunication network or a data transmission bus
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00026 involving a local wireless network, e.g. Wi-Fi, ZigBee or Bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00028 involving the use of Internet protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/381 Dispersed generators
• 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 10/12 Monitoring or controlling equipment for energy generation units, e.g. distributed energy generation [DER] or load-side generation
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/124 using wired telecommunication networks or data transmission busses
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/126 using wireless data transmission

Abstract

A monitoring system includes a centralized generation and control system of an electrical grid operator. A distributed generator integration device connects a distributed generator to the electrical grid, and automatically initiates machine-to-machine communications with the distributed generator to: gather specification and performance data, control the distributed generator, and automatically add and configure the distributed generator to the centralized generation control of the monitoring system.

Claims

1. A method implemented by a distributed generator integration device that connects a distributed generator to the electrical grid, the method comprising:

initiating machine-to-machine communications between the distributed generator integration device and the distributed generator;

retrieving data from the distributed generator to provide the distributed generator integration device with specification and performance data;

assuming control of the distributed generator;

adding and configuring the distributed generator to a centralized operator distributed generation control and monitoring system; and

transmitting, to a distributed generation management system, the distributed generator specification and performance data.

2. The method implemented by the distributed generator integration device of claim 1, wherein the distributed generator integration device is a meter collar.

3. The method implemented by the distributed generator integration device of claim 1, wherein the machine-to-machine communication between the distributed generator integration device and the distributed generator is initiated and conducted over a wired data connection.

4. The method implemented by the distributed generator integration device of claim 1, wherein the machine-to-machine communication between the distributed generator integration device and the distributed generator is initiated and conducted over a wireless data connection.

5. The method implemented by the distributed generator integration device of claim 1, wherein the machine-to-machine communication between the distributed generator integration device and the distributed generator is initiated and conducted over power line connection.