US 11,921,480 B2
Optimizing distributed energy resource value
Rajagopalan Krishnamurthy, Cupertino, CA (US); and Leticia Santana, Toronto (CA)
Assigned to Hygge Energy Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Hygge Energy Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/218,631.
Prior Publication US 2022/0317640 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. G05B 19/042 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/042 (2013.01) [G05B 2219/2639 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for assigning exported energy values from a distributed energy resource (DER), which provides the exported energy to a plurality of consumers of a community of energy consumers prior to transferring excess energy to a utility network, the method comprising:
distributing the exported energy to the plurality of consumers from the DER;
measuring said exported energy values from the DER and consumed energy values from the plurality of consumers instantaneously and continuously via a plurality of IoT edge devices connected to a cloud computing infrastructure via a telecommunication network, a respective one of the plurality of IoT edge devices coupled to the DER and to each of the energy consumers in the community of energy consumers;
storing measured exported energy values and consumed energy values from the IoT edge devices on a memory coupled to a processor in said cloud computing infrastructure;
differentiating said plurality of consumers based on a predetermined allocation algorithm using the processor;
continuously assigning said exported energy values from the DER to one or more of the plurality of consumers according to instantaneous measurements of the exported energy values and of the consumed energy values and said predetermined allocation algorithms using the processor;
determining an optimized value of the exported energy from the DER based on the assigning of the exported energy value to the one or more of the plurality of consumers;
utilizing the processor for crediting the DER with an accurate net energy credit for the optimized value of the exported energy and the excess energy;
generating transaction records for the DER based on the optimized value of the exported energy, and the excess energy;
generating transaction records of the plurality of consumers based on the optimized value of the exported energy; and
distributing energy from the DER to one or more of said plurality of consumer based on the optimized value of the exported energy.