US 12,081,021 B2
Systems and methods for microutility metering and energy allocation
Thomas Buttgenbach, Santa Monica, CA (US); and Finbar Sheehy, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to 8ME NOVA, LLC, El Dorado Hills, CA (US)
Filed by 8ME NOVA, LLC, El Dorado Hills, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/978,080.
Application 17/978,080 is a continuation of application No. 17/850,502, filed on Jun. 27, 2022, granted, now 11,489,337.
Application 17/850,502 is a continuation of application No. 17/697,665, filed on Mar. 17, 2022, granted, now 11,431,169, issued on Aug. 30, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/235,278, filed on Aug. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0187933 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. H02J 3/00 (2006.01); H02J 3/38 (2006.01)
CPC H02J 3/003 (2020.01) [H02J 3/004 (2020.01); H02J 3/381 (2013.01); H02J 2203/10 (2020.01); H02J 2300/24 (2020.01); H02J 2300/28 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for managing electrical energy generated by a renewable microgrid, comprising one or more computer processors operatively coupled to computer memory and configured by machine-readable instructions to:
store one or more priorities and one or more energy limits for one or more consumer loads in the computer memory;
forecast an amount of electrical energy available from a renewable energy system (RES) and an energy storage system (ESS) for a time period;
and
direct electrical energy from the RES or the ESS to a first consumer load and a second consumer load according to the stored one or more priorities based on the forecast amount of electrical energy and the one or more energy limits and for the time period.