US 12,427,881 B1
Optimized local power systems
Bryan Richard Black, Salt Lake City, UT (US); James Daniel Sechrest, Salt Lake City, UT (US); and Matthew Paul Jones, Lehi, UT (US)
Assigned to Nodal Power Systems, Inc., Layton, UT (US)
Filed by Nodal Power Systems, Inc., Layton, UT (US)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/478,065.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/493,582, filed on Mar. 31, 2023.
Int. Cl. B60L 53/62 (2019.01); B60L 53/53 (2019.01); B60L 53/63 (2019.01); F02B 63/04 (2006.01); G05B 13/02 (2006.01); H02J 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 53/62 (2019.02) [B60L 53/53 (2019.02); B60L 53/63 (2019.02); F02B 63/042 (2013.01); G05B 13/024 (2013.01); H02J 7/14 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a generator set comprising a biogas-fueled engine, a generator, and an output terminal, the biogas-fueled engine receiving biogas produced from a landfill as an input to generate torque to power the generator to output electrical power;
a battery energy storage system (BESS) coupled to the output terminal of the generator set;
one or more electric vehicle (EV) charging stations coupled to the output terminal of the generator set to form a local power system, each EV charging station configured to couple with an electric vehicle; and
a controller that is communicably comprising a processor and a memory, the memory storing one or more sequences of computer-readable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute:
monitoring one or more electrical conditions of the BESS, the one or more EV charging stations, and the generator set;
determining, using a machine learning model, one or more anticipated conditions of individual components of the system or the system as a whole based on current conditions;
determining an optimized power flow based on the one or more electrical conditions, the one or more anticipated conditions, and one or more pre-programmed objectives;
controlling one or more elements of the BESS, EV charging stations, and generator set to cause an electrical power flow therebetween to be in accordance with the optimized power flow;
monitoring one or more other electrical conditions of a power grid and a local load coupled to the BESS, wherein the local load comprises a plurality of sub-loads; and
selectively coupling one or more sub-loads of the plurality of sub-loads to power via respective electrical contactors without data loss, wherein the one or more anticipated conditions include anticipated electrical output of the generator set and wherein the one or more sub-loads of the plurality of sub-loads are de-coupled from power based on the anticipated electrical output.