GRID TIED, REAL TIME ADAPTIVE, DISTRIBUTED INTERMITTENT POWER

摘要

Utility (or other grid participant's) customers' intermittent power generation systems and loads (including optional energy storage) are made autonomously real time adaptive at the customer circuit level, so each of the customers' circuits (after powering that customer's varying load) contributes, at that customer's common connection to the utility meter, to the utility's (or other grid participant's) desired outcome for that customer's circuit, or contributes, at the intermediate circuit level, to the utility's desired aggregate outcomes for customers on that intermediate circuit. Energy management controllers are connected, behind the customer's utility meter on the customer's circuit, to controlled load portions of that customer's varying load, to autonomously add or shed, in real time, those controlled load portions, or (if there is stored energy) to autonomously discharge, in real time, stored power from storage. Utility (or other grid participant) rules for achieving desired outcomes can be downloaded to the controllers and customers can individually opt-in to some, all, or none, of those utility (or other grid participant) rules. Real time means within sub second to fifteen second intervals.

主权项

1. A method for managing load on a grid operably connected to a grid participant that provides power to customers through a plurality of intermediate circuits, wherein each customer has a varying load on a customer circuit that is behind a utility meter connected at a common connection to one of the intermediate circuits, comprising:
providing energy management controllers to controlled load customers to enable each controlled load customer to controllably switch in real time controlled load portions of the varying load of that controlled load customer, by autonomously connecting or disconnecting said controlled load portions from the customer circuit of that controlled load customer in real time, whereby the controllers allow shedding of load shedding parts, and adding of load adding parts, of said controlled load portions of that controlled load customer in real time behind the utility meter;
wherein the controllers for each controlled load customer are downloadably connected to said grid participant so that said grid participant can download to the controllers grid participant rules for said grid participant's desired outcome for the intermediate circuit of that controlled load customer; wherein certain of said controlled load customers are power generation customers, who each has an intermittent power generation system that provides unpredictably fluctuating generated power to that power generation customer's customer circuit; detecting in real time changes in each power generation customer's varying load and unpredictably fluctuating generated power; wherein, in real time response to detected excesses in power to meet a power generation customer's varying load and desired outcome on that power generation customer's customer circuit the controllers for that power generation customer's customer circuit autonomously connect the power generation customer's intermittent power generation system to said load adding parts to add sufficient load in real time to absorb the excesses behind the utility meter; wherein in real time response to detected deficiencies in power to meet the power generation customer's varying load and desired outcome on that power generation customer's customer circuit, the controllers for that power generation customer's customer circuit autonomously disconnect load shedding parts to shed sufficient load in real time to reduce the deficiencies behind the utility meter; whereby autonomously connecting and disconnecting said load adding parts and said load shedding parts behind the meter in real time according to said grid participant rules contributes to making the power generation customers' customer circuits autonomously real time adaptive to conform to said grid participant rules.