US 12,191,662 B2
Electric grid anomaly location, isolation and service restoration
Charles H. Wells, San Diego, CA (US); Raymond A. de Callafon, San Diego, CA (US); and Patrick T. Lee, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to PXISE ENERGY SOLUTIONS, LLC, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by PXiSE Energy Solutions, LLC, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 3, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/625,938.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/456,772, filed on Apr. 3, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0332965 A1, Oct. 3, 2024
Int. Cl. H02J 3/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/08 (2020.01); H02J 3/38 (2006.01)
CPC H02J 3/0012 (2020.01) [G01R 31/086 (2013.01); G01R 31/088 (2013.01); H02J 3/388 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising:
obtaining phasor measurements, each of the phasor measurements being for a corresponding network node of a plurality of geographically distributed network nodes of an alternating current (AC) electric network;
processing the phasor measurements to determine whether there is an anomaly in the AC electric network, wherein processing the phasor measurements to determine whether there is the anomaly comprises determining whether one or more deviations are present based on:
comparing the phasor measurements to one or more reference nominal measurements, wherein comparing the phasor measurements to the one or more reference nominal measurements comprises:
generating a measured representation that is a three-dimensional surface with x and y coordinates that correspond to geospatial locations of the AC electric network, and that is formed based on measurement z values that correspond to the phasor measurements and that are at measurement x and y coordinates, of the x and y coordinates, for the geographically distributed network nodes; and
comparing the three-dimensional surface, of the measured representation, to an additional three-dimensional surface of a nominal representation, of the reference nominal measurements, to determine whether there is the anomaly in the AC electric network;
determining, based on comparing the three-dimensional surface to the additional three-dimensional surface, that one or more of the deviations are present in a given network node of the corresponding network nodes, wherein one or more of the deviations indicate that there is the anomaly in the AC electric network; and
causing, in response to determining that one or more of the deviations are present in the given network node, isolation of the given network node from the AC electric network.