Method and supply system for the decentralized provision of energy

• US 10,622,809 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2015
• Issued: 04/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pekra GmbH
• Original Assignee: Pekra GmbH
• Inventors: Kraft, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Hartman, Jr., Ronald D
• Application Number:
  US15/509,654
• Publication Number:
  US 20170264096A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,688 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/12 Bikes
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/18 Buses
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/28 Trailers
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/305 Communication interfaces
• 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: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• 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 3/38 Arrangements for parallely feeding a single network by two or more generators, converters or transformers
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/34 Parallel operation in networks using both storage and other dc sources, e.g. providing buffering H02J7/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• 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

Disclosed is a method for the decentralized provision of energy, preferably electricity or heat. In the method, a plurality of decentralized energy producers (1) and/or energy suppliers is located in a definable geographic region, and the energy is transported between the energy producers (1), energy suppliers, energy buyers and/or energy consumers (2) according to the offer and/or demand by mobile storage units (3), without using any cable system. A corresponding supply system for the decentralized provision of energy is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for the decentralized provision of energy in the form of electrical energy or heat, the method comprising:

multiple decentralized energy producers (1) and/or energy suppliers being arranged in a definable geographic area,

transporting the energy, in the form of electrical energy or heat, between energy producers (1), energy suppliers, energy buyers, and/or energy consumers (2) according to energy supply and/or demand by use of movable storage units (3) and without using any power line system, wherein the movable storage units (3) are transported by vehicles via individually defined transport paths, and the movable storage units (3) being transported respectively to the energy producers (1) and to the energy consumers (3) for consumption of the energy from the movable storage units (3) respectively by the energy producers (1) and by the energy consumers (3),

wherein the energy supply and demand relative to the energy used by users are administered by a central computer,

wherein a monitoring of the supply and demand relative to the energy is carried out by an application software,

wherein the energy producers and/or energy suppliers form a decentralized supply system, and

using a measuring technique and/or interfacing to E-vehicles to integrate the users of the decentralized supply system.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the vehicles include motor vehicles, and wherein each movable storage unit (3) is assigned to a corresponding one of the motor vehicles.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein each motor vehicle is a passenger car, a truck, a bus, a motorcycle, or a train car.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the movable storage units for the energy are assigned to the producers (1) and/or suppliers.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the motor vehicles is driven electrically.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the movable storage units for the energy are assigned to the producers (1) and/or suppliers.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the motor vehicles is driven electrically.

8. The method according to claim 2, wherein the movable storage units for the energy are assigned to the producers (1) and/or suppliers.

9. The method according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the motor vehicles is driven electrically using electrical energy from the movable storage unit (3) that is being transported by the one motor vehicle.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the movable storage units for the energy are assigned to the producers (1) and/or suppliers.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising additional storage units that are stationary.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the energy is renewable energy.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein, the energy is produced by at least one of the sun, wind, hydroelectric power, heat, geothermal energy, and biomass.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring of the energy supply and/or demand relative to energy used by the users is made via the Internet.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the users are registered.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the monitoring is carried out via an application software on a cell phone.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein a reserving of, ordering of, and/or paying for energy is carried out via another application software.

18. A supply system for decentralized provision of energy for implementing the method according to claim 1, whereby multiple decentralized energy producers (1) and/or energy suppliers are arranged in a definable geographic area and whereby energy can be transported between energy producers (1), energy suppliers, energy buyers, and/or energy consumers (2) according to the supply and/or demand by means of movable storage units (3) without using any power line system, the supply system comprising a central computer for administering the supply and demand relative to energy, whereby a monitoring of the supply and demand relative to energy can be carried out via an application software.

19. The supply system of claim 18, wherein the energy provided is at least one of electrical energy and heat.

20. The method according to claim 1, wherein the vehicles include a trailer.