US 12,244,144 B2
Energy control utilizing a virtual power plant
Nima Harsamizadeh Tehrani, Vancouver (CA); Michael K. Ruth, Longmont, CO (US); Jeffrey Macaulay, Denver, CO (US); Eric J. Young, LaGrangeville, NY (US); and James Weinkam, Vancouver (CA)
Assigned to Power Management Holdings (U.S.), Inc., Waukesha, WI (US)
Filed by Power Management Holdings (U.S.), Inc., Waukesha, WI (US)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/464,032.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/111,580, filed on Nov. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0149619 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. H02J 3/00 (2006.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01); G05B 17/02 (2006.01); G06Q 50/06 (2012.01)
CPC H02J 3/00 (2013.01) [G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G05B 17/02 (2013.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); H02J 2203/20 (2020.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of controlling a fleet of distributed energy resources, the method comprising:
receiving an energy control request including an energy target and a scheduled time to achieve the energy target;
creating a virtual model of a fleet of distributed energy resources comprising virtual representations of battery storage systems for each distributed energy resource of the fleet of distributed energy resources, wherein at least one distributed energy resource of the fleet of distributed energy resources has no battery storage system, and wherein the fleet of distributed energy resources comprises one or more distributed generation systems and one or more distributed energy storage systems;
determining an energy adjustment needed across the fleet of distributed energy resources to achieve the energy target using the virtual model;
determining an allocation of the energy adjustment among a group of distributed energy resources of the fleet using the virtual model; and
instructing the group of distributed energy resources of the fleet to make energy adjustments according to allocations to cause the fleet of distributed energy resources to achieve the energy target by the scheduled time.