Managing a power exchange using interconnect socket adapters

• US 10,636,043 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2016
• Issued: 04/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: San Diego Gas & Electric Company (Sempra Energy)
• Original Assignee: San Diego Gas & Electric Company (Sempra Energy)
• Inventors: Parks, Ken, Colburn, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan, Huy Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): Frederiksen, David B
• Application Number:
  US15/130,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20160232623A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,474 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/02 electric constitutive elements
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 1/0416 Connectors, terminals G01R1/0425 and G01R1/0433 take precedence; with measurement function for battery poles G01R31/364
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 22/061 Details of electronic electricity meters
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 22/065 related to mechanical aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 3/00 Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture or maintenance of measuring instruments , e.g. of probe tips
• CPC Class Codes: G05F 1/66 Regulating electric power
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0206 Price or cost determination based on market factors
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/542 Adapters
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/02 Intermediate parts for distributing energy to two or more circuits in parallel, e.g. splitter with a holder adapted for supporting apparatus to which its counterpart is attached H01R33/92
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 33/7635 the terminals being collectively connected, e.g. to a PCB
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 33/94 Holders formed as intermediate parts for linking a counter-part to a coupling part
• CPC Class Codes: H02B 1/03 for energy meters
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/008 involving trading of energy or energy transmission rights
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/38 Arrangements for parallely feeding a single network by two or more generators, converters or transformers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/56 Power conversion systems, e.g. maximum power point trackers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/76 Power conversion electric or electronic aspects
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 80/10 Efficient use of energy, e.g. using compressed air or pressurized fluid as energy carrier
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/00 Market activities related to the operation of systems integrating technologies related to power network operation or related to communication or information technologies
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/14 : Marketing, i.e. market research and analysis, surveying, promotions, advertising, buyer profiling, customer management or rewards
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/16 : Energy services, e.g. dispersed generation or demand or load or energy savings aggregation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49208 : by assembling plural parts

Abstract

A power exchange includes an energy exchange server and a plurality of exchange controllers, each exchange controller communicatively coupled to an interconnect socket adapter, wherein the energy exchange server receives a real-time energy consumption data set, a real-time energy production data set, a set of environmental parameters and a starting energy price, and generates a current aggregate electricity demand value as a function of the real-time energy consumption data set and the environmental parameters, a current aggregate electricity supply value as a function of the real-time energy production dataset and the environmental parameters, and a current energy price as a function of the starting energy price, the current aggregate electricity demand value, and the current aggregate electricity supply value.

Claims

1. A power exchange, comprising:

an energy exchange server and a plurality of energy exchange controllers electrically coupled to a power grid, each energy exchange controller being communicatively coupled to an interconnect socket adapter;

wherein the energy exchange server comprises a processor and a non-statutory computer readable medium with software embedded thereon, the software configured to;

receive, from each interconnect socket adapter, a real-time energy consumption data set;

receive, from a real-time energy pricing database, a set of environmental parameters and a starting energy price;

receive, from each interconnect socket adapter and one or more energy production facilities, a real-time energy production data set;

generate a current aggregate electricity demand value as a function of the realtime energy consumption data set and the environmental parameters;

generate a current aggregate electricity supply value as a function of the real-time energy production dataset and the environmental parameters; and

generate a current energy price as a function of the starting energy price, the current aggregate electricity demand value, and the current aggregate electricity supply value.

2. The power exchange of claim 1, wherein the software is further configured to cause the energy exchange server to transmit the current energy price to each exchange controller.

3. The power exchange of claim 2, wherein each exchange controller is configured to track an amount of energy sent back into the power grid from a corresponding interconnect socket adapter and the software of the energy exchange server is further configured to generate, for each energy exchange controller, a total energy reimbursement value as a function of the current energy price and the amount of energy sent back into the power grid.

4. The power exchange of claim 2, wherein each exchange controller is configured to, if the current energy price exceeds a threshold, transmit a signal to a user interface to alert users to limit or terminate power consumption, such that power generated through power sources coupled to the interconnect socket adapters may be directed into the power grid.

5. The power exchange of claim 2, wherein each exchange controller is configured to, if the current energy price exceeds a threshold, transmit a signal to limit or terminate power consumption to a one or more energy sinks coupled to the interconnect socket adapters, such that power generated through power sources coupled to the interconnect socket adapters may be directed into the power grid.

6. The power exchange of claim 2, wherein each exchange controller is configured to, if the current energy price falls below a threshold, transmit a signal to a user interface to alert users to increase power consumption or storage.

7. The power exchange of claim 2, wherein each exchange controller is configured to, if the current energy price exceeds a threshold, transmit a signal to increase power consumption or storage to one or more energy sinks coupled to the interconnect socket adapters, such that power generated through power sources coupled to the interconnect socket adapters may be directed into the power grid.

8. The power exchange of claim 1, wherein the set of environmental parameters comprises a current temperature, a forecast temperature, a forecast weather condition, a time of day, a maintenance activity, an availability of fuel, a price of fuel, or an estimated future price of fuel.

9. A computer-implemented method for exchanging power, comprising:

receiving, with an energy exchange server, a real-time energy consumption data set and a real-time energy production data set;

receiving, with the energy exchange server, a set of environmental parameters and a starting energy price;

generating a current aggregate electricity demand value as a function of the realtime energy consumption data set and the environmental parameters;

generating a current aggregate electricity supply value as a function of the realtime energy production dataset and the environmental parameters; and

generating a current energy price as a function of the starting energy price, the current aggregate electricity demand value, and the current aggregate electricity supply value.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising transmitting the current energy price to each of a plurality of exchange controllers, wherein each exchange controller communicatively couples to an interconnect socket adapter.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising tracking an amount of energy sent back into the power grid from each interconnect socket adapter and generating, for each energy exchange controller, a total energy reimbursement value as a function of the current energy price and the amount of energy sent back into the power grid.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising transmitting, if the current energy price exceeds a threshold, a signal to a user interface to alert users to limit or terminate power consumption, such that power generated through power sources coupled to the interconnect socket adapters may be directed into the power grid.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising transmitting, if the current energy price exceeds a threshold, a signal to limit or terminate power consumption to a one or more energy sinks coupled to the interconnect socket adapters, such that power generated through power sources coupled to the interconnect socket adapters may be directed into the power grid.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising transmitting, if the current energy price falls below a threshold, a signal to a user interface to alert users to increase power consumption or storage.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising transmitting, if the current energy price falls below a threshold, a signal to increase power consumption or storage to one or more energy sinks coupled to the interconnect socket adapters, such that power generated through power sources coupled to the interconnect socket adapters may be directed into the power grid.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the set of environmental parameters comprises a current temperature, a forecast temperature, a forecast weather condition, a time of day, a maintenance activity, an availability of oil, a price of oil, or an estimated future price of oil.