US 12,282,971 B2
Distributed energy resource system design and operation
Ines da Mata Cecilio, Cambridge (GB); Matthieu Simon, Clamart (FR); Simon Bittleston, Suffolk (GB); and Sylvain Thierry, Clamart (FR)
Assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed on May 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/320,256.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/024,798, filed on May 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0358058 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01); G06Q 10/067 (2023.01); G06Q 50/06 (2012.01); H02J 3/38 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 50/06 (2013.01) [G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2013.01); G06Q 10/067 (2013.01); H02J 3/381 (2013.01); Y02P 80/20 (2015.11); Y04S 10/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An energy management system for a distributed energy resource system including a plurality of local energy sub-systems, wherein the plurality of local energy sub-systems includes a heat pump sub-system including a heat pump and a geothermal system, comprising:
a design system configured to provide a design for a distributed energy resource system to be developed and to enhance a design for an established distributed energy resource system in response to certain changes in the established distributed energy resource system, comprising:
a plurality of bottom-level designers configured to generate detailed designs of a plurality of local energy sub-systems, wherein the plurality of bottom-level designers includes a heat pump sub-system designer including: a heat pump and surface piping model and a subsurface model;
a top-level designer configured to coordinate the plurality of bottom-level designers to seek a top-level global design based on design input for the distributed energy resource system;
wherein the energy management system utilizes a result of one or more forecast models as a portion of the design input, and wherein the result of the one or more forecast models comprise at least one variable, including energy price, energy demand, energy generation, environmental factors energy storage capacity, or combination thereof, and at least an uncertainty relative to the at least one variable,
wherein the top-level global design satisfies an energy demand of a target deployment location taking into account the at least one uncertainty related to the design input, wherein each of the detailed designs of the plurality of local energy sub-systems takes into account the design input to generate the detailed design and wherein the top-level designer utilizes at least a portion of the detailed designs to update the top-level global design; and
a user interface configured to output the top-level global design and the detailed designs to facilitate construction of the distributed energy resource system including one or more geothermal wells and the heat pump using design parameters of the detailed designs; and
a control system configured to provide control for the distributed energy resource system including the one or more geothermal wells and the heat pump during operation of the distributed energy resource system using design parameters of the top-level design.