US 11,927,976 B2
Utility console for controlling energy resources
Brian Golden, Great Falls, VA (US); Courtney McMahan, Arlington, VA (US); David Hakim, Silver Spring, MD (US); and Edward Shnekendorf, Falls Church, VA (US)
Assigned to GRIDPOINT, INC., Reston, VA (US)
Filed by GridPoint, Inc., Reston, VA (US)
Filed on May 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/303,113.
Application 17/303,113 is a continuation of application No. 16/405,092, filed on May 7, 2019, granted, now 11,022,994.
Application 16/405,092 is a continuation of application No. 15/435,535, filed on Feb. 17, 2017, abandoned.
Application 15/435,535 is a continuation of application No. 14/508,119, filed on Oct. 7, 2014, abandoned.
Application 14/508,119 is a continuation of application No. 11/968,941, filed on Jan. 3, 2008, granted, now 8,855,829, issued on Oct. 7, 2014.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/878,072, filed on Jan. 3, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2022/0147088 A1, May 12, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G05B 15/02 (2006.01); G05F 1/66 (2006.01); G06N 5/04 (2023.01); H02J 3/32 (2006.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01)
CPC G05F 1/66 (2013.01) [G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G06N 5/04 (2013.01); H02J 3/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2642 (2013.01); Y02B 70/30 (2013.01); Y02P 80/10 (2015.11); Y04S 20/20 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of controlling energy consumption of a plurality of energy consuming devices at a premises, each of the plurality of energy consuming devices being controlled by a corresponding load controller, each load controller being communicatively coupled to one of a plurality of distributed energy management controllers, the plurality of distributed energy management controllers being communicatively coupled to a computer system of an operations control center, comprising:
sending a notification of a demand response request from the operations control center to customers associated with each distributed energy management controller, the notification including a schedule of an associated demand response event;
receiving acknowledgement of the demand response request from one or more customers associated with each one of the plurality of distributed energy management controllers;
transmitting a command from the operations control center to at least one of the plurality of distributed energy management controllers to curtail or engage one or more of the plurality of energy consuming devices according to the schedule of the associated demand response event;
generating, by the computer system of the operations control center, a report that indicates how much load can be expected to be shed from each premises associated with a corresponding energy management controller based upon the acknowledgement from each customer and an aggregated estimate of a size of an expected load reduction based on historical load measurements; and
executing, by the energy management controllers at the premises, the curtail or engage commands at a scheduled time according to the schedule of the associated demand response event.