US 12,476,483 B2
Energy source tracking system
Leticia Santana, Toronto (CA); Rajagopalan Krishnamurthy, Toronto (CA); and Ishan Kashyap, Toronto (CA)
Assigned to HYGGE ENERGY INC., Toronto (CA)
Appl. No. 18/876,823
Filed by Hygge Energy Inc., Toronto (CA)
PCT Filed Aug. 22, 2023, PCT No. PCT/CA2023/051107
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 19, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2024/040338, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 29, 2024.
Claims priority of application No. CA 3171151 (CA), filed on Aug. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2025/0175032 A1, May 29, 2025
Int. Cl. H02J 13/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/04 (2023.01); G06Q 50/06 (2024.01); H02J 3/38 (2006.01)
CPC H02J 13/00002 (2020.01) [G06Q 10/04 (2013.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); H02J 3/381 (2013.01); H02J 2203/10 (2020.01); H02J 2310/12 (2020.01); H02J 2310/70 (2020.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of determining decarbonization impact of one or more distributed energy resources (DER), wherein the one or more DERs comprise renewable energy resources, with one or more related site loads in a community of consumers, wherein the one or more site loads receive electrical energy from the one or more DERs and a local energy grid, the local energy grid comprising at least some non-renewable energy resources, comprising:
a) determining, by a plurality of monitoring devices associated with each DER and each site load, energy resource data comprising an amount of electrical energy exported by each DER, and the energy resource data further comprising an amount of electrical energy consumed by each site load from the one or more DERs and the local energy grid;
b) obtaining, by the plurality of monitoring devices, application information for each of the plurality of applications from each site load, the application information comprising a type of application and source of the electrical energy used;
c) determining, by a controller processor executing instructions stored on non-transitory memory, community consumption data comprising instantaneous allocations of the electrical energy exported by each DER to each site load in the community of consumers, wherein the allocations are determined from the energy resource data;
d) correlating, by the controller processor, the energy resource data, the community consumption data, and the application information to generate carbon-tracking records indicating the decarbonization impact of each DER based on an amount of renewable energy allocated to one or more of the plurality of applications at each site load;
e) determining, by the controller processor, a plurality of carbon-displacing applications from among the plurality of applications based on a carbon displacement value for each application, the carbon displacement value representing an amount of carbon emissions avoided by sourcing electrical energy for one or more of the plurality of applications from the renewable energy sources instead of the non-renewable energy sources; and
f) allocating, by an allocation engine, the electrical energy exported by each DER to one or more of the plurality of carbon-displacing applications based on the carbon displacement value associated with each application.