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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2015
Applicant:
Enphase Energy, Inc., Petaluma, CA (US);
Inventors:
Benjamin Lewis Smith, Petaluma, CA (US);
Daniel Lewis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Enphase Energy, Inc., Petaluma, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 5/02 (2006.01); H02J 3/38 (2006.01); H02J 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 5/02 (2013.01); H02J 3/381 (2013.01); H02J 2003/007 (2013.01); Y02E 60/76 (2013.01); Y04S 40/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for mapping distributed generators (DGs) to corresponding power grid feeder lines. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining grid data pertaining to a power grid that comprises a plurality of feeder lines; obtaining, for each distributed generator (DG) of a plurality of DGs coupled to the plurality of feeder lines, DG data pertaining to the DG; and determining, based on the grid data and the DG data, a mapping that identifies to which feeder line of the plurality of feeder lines each of the DGs of the plurality of DGs is coupled.