ENERGY PREDICTION SYSTEM

• US 20130060392A1
• Filed: 09/02/2011
• Published: 03/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NantEnergy, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Deshpande, Sachin G., Kerofsky, Louis Joseph, Wang, Yanzhi
• Granted Patent: US 8,751,054 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/291
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/20 The dispersed energy generation being of renewable origin
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/22 The renewable source being solar energy
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/64 The condition being economic, e.g. tariff based load management
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/003 Load forecast, e.g. methods or systems for forecasting future load demand
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/28 Arrangements for balancing of the load in a network by storage of energy
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/381 Dispersed generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/466 Scheduling the operation of the generators, e.g. connecting or disconnecting generators to meet a given demand
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 70/30 Systems combining energy storage with energy generation of non-fossil origin
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

An energy management system includes a controller receiving electrical pricing information from an electrical utility company, measuring electrical power usage of a customer, and providing the electrical power usage to the electrical utility company. The controller is suitable to receive information regarding energy storage of a customer'"'"'s electrical power storage and receive power information regarding a power generation source of the customer. The controller modifies the power usage of the energy management system based upon the pricing information, the electrical power usage, the energy storage, the power information, wherein the pricing information includes a plurality of temporal pricing levels and a temporal peak pricing level.

Claims

1. An energy management system comprising:

(a) a controller receiving electrical pricing information from an electrical utility company, measuring electrical power usage of a customer, and providing said electrical power usage to said electrical utility company;

(b) said controller suitable to receive information regarding energy storage of a customer'"'"'s electrical power storage;

(c) said controller suitable to receive power information regarding a power generation source of said customer;

(d) said controller modifying the power usage of said energy management system based upon said pricing information, said electrical power usage, said energy storage, said power information, wherein said pricing information includes a plurality of temporal pricing levels and a temporal peak pricing level.

2. The energy management system of claim 1 wherein said pricing information includes said plurality of temporal pricing levels for different time periods of a day for energy usage and said temporal peak pricing level for at one of said time periods of said day.

3. The energy management system of claim 1 wherein said pricing information includes at least one of monthly pricing, weekly pricing, and day of the week pricing.

4. The energy management system of claim 2 wherein said plurality of pricing levels includes at least three different pricing levels.

5. The energy management system of claim 1 wherein said controller modifies said energy usage in a manner so as to reduce said temporal peak pricing level.

6. The energy management system of claim 5 wherein said modification is based upon a model of predicted electrical power usage.

7. The energy management system of claim 6 wherein said modification is based upon a model of a predicted temporal power storage.

8. The energy management system of claim 7 wherein said modification is based upon a model of a predicted power information.

9. The energy management system of claim 8 wherein said modification is updated during a day using a modified model.

10. The energy management system of claim 9 wherein said predicted power information and said predicted electrical power usage are not dependent on one another.

11. The energy management system of claim 10 wherein said predicted power information is based upon a model having a plurality of segments.

12. The energy management system of claim 11 wherein said predicted power information is based upon a model having a plurality of segments.