US 12,392,232 B2
Microgrid electrical load management
Brandon N. Hinderliter, Houston, TX (US); and Jared Oehring, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to U.S. WELL SERVICES, LLC, Willow Park, TX (US)
Filed by U.S. Well Services, LLC, Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Dec. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/392,957.
Application 18/392,957 is a continuation of application No. 17/466,261, filed on Sep. 3, 2021, granted, now 11,851,999.
Application 17/466,261 is a continuation of application No. 16/268,030, filed on Feb. 5, 2019, granted, now 11,114,857, issued on Sep. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/626,614, filed on Feb. 5, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0392670 A1, Nov. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. E21B 43/26 (2006.01); H02J 3/14 (2006.01); H02J 3/38 (2006.01); H02J 3/46 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 43/2607 (2020.05) [H02J 3/14 (2013.01); H02J 3/381 (2013.01); H02J 3/46 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for completing a well, the system comprising:
two or more generators;
a plurality of electric load components, each electric load component powered by the two or more generators; and
a load shedding control panel that monitors the two or more generators and, if at least one of the two or more generators loses functionality, the load shedding control panel deactivates one or more of the plurality of electric load components to reduce an electric load, wherein the load shedding control panel prioritizes an order in which at least one or more of the plurality of electric load components are deactivated,
wherein the plurality of electric load components comprises at least one of an electric drilling rig, one or more hydraulic fracturing pumps, a blender, sand equipment, a hydration unit, a data van, or combinations thereof, and
wherein deactivation of at least one of the blender, the one or more hydraulic fracturing pumps, the sand equipment, the hydration unit, the data van, and/or combinations thereof prevents deactivation of another one of the blender, the one or more hydraulic fracturing pumps, the sand equipment the hydration unit, the data van, and/or combination thereof in response to reduction of the electric load.