US 12,237,678 B2
System method and apparatus for providing a load shape signal for power networks
Robert F. Cruickshank, III, Big Indian, NY (US)
Filed by Robert F. Cruickshank, III, Big Indian, NY (US)
Filed on May 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/329,210.
Application 17/329,210 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/US2020/062467, filed on Nov. 26, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/940,922, filed on Nov. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/940,920, filed on Nov. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0296897 A1, Sep. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. G05B 15/02 (2006.01); G06Q 50/06 (2012.01); H02J 3/00 (2006.01); H02J 3/14 (2006.01); H02J 3/38 (2006.01)
CPC H02J 3/14 (2013.01) [G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); H02J 3/003 (2020.01); H02J 3/008 (2013.01); H02J 3/381 (2013.01); H02J 2300/20 (2020.01); H02J 2310/16 (2020.01); H02J 2310/60 (2020.01); H02J 2310/64 (2020.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus generating a load shape signal, the apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to:
obtain a price of energy signal, the price of energy signal indicative of a price of energy provided on a power grid or sub-grid;
generate the load shape signal representing the load of a serving area of the power grid or sub-grid that represents a load of a plurality of energy consuming devices in said power grid or sub-grid and forming the load shape signal using a modification of the price of energy, the modification being at least an inversion or partial inversion of the price of energy or at least a portion of the price of energy; and
wherein the load shape signal is indicative of the load that one or more appliances of energy are to at least attempt to achieve.