US 12,242,775 B2
Electrical power grid interconnections
Leo Francis Casey, San Francisco, CA (US); Xinyue Li, San Mateo, CA (US); Page Furey Crahan, San Francisco, CA (US); Raymond Daly, Palo Alto, CA (US); Peter Evans, Los Altos Hills, CA (US); Xing Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Amanda McNary, Redwood City, CA (US)
Assigned to X Development LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by X Development LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/354,012.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/045,360, filed on Jun. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0406425 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/20 (2006.01); H02J 3/00 (2006.01); H02J 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 113/04 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 30/20 (2020.01) [G06T 11/001 (2013.01); G06T 11/206 (2013.01); H02J 3/00 (2013.01); H02J 13/00001 (2020.01); H02J 13/00006 (2020.01); G06F 2113/04 (2020.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); H02J 2203/20 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method executed by one or more processors, the method comprising:
receiving interconnection data for a proposed interconnection to a power grid, wherein the proposed interconnection comprises an electrical power source or planned electrical power source that has not previously connected to the power grid;
accessing a power grid model comprising a topological representation of the power grid, electrical specifications of grid components, and empirical operation characteristics;
generating, using the interconnection data for the proposed interconnection to the power grid and the power grid model, simulated power grid data, wherein:
the simulated power grid data is based on simulating operation of the power grid with the proposed interconnection coupled to a location of the power grid identified by the interconnection data during a simulated time period, and
the simulated power grid data comprises a plurality of different temporal and spatially dependent characteristics of the power grid;
evaluating the simulated power grid data, including comparing the simulated power grid data to one or more metrics derived from industry standards for power grid operations; and
outputting evaluation results indicating, for each metric of the one or more metrics, whether simulated operation of the power grid with the proposed interconnection coupled to the location of the power grid identified by the interconnection data satisfies the metric.