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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
Johnson Controls Technology Company, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Michael J. Wenzel, Oak Creek, WI (US);
Kirk H. Drees, Cedarburg, WI (US);
John I. Ruiz, New Berlin, WI (US);
Matthew J. Ellis, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Mohammad N. ElBsat, Milwaukee, WI (US);
John H. Burroughs, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Juan Esteban Tapiero Bernal, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Johnson Controls Technology Company, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
An energy storage system includes a photovoltaic energy field, a stationary energy storage device, an energy converter, and a controller. The photovoltaic energy field converts solar energy into electrical energy and charges the stationary energy storage device with the electrical energy. The energy converter converts the electrical energy stored in the stationary energy storage device into AC power at a discharge rate and supplies a campus with the AC power at the discharge rate. The controller generates a cost function of the energy consumption of the campus across a time horizon which relates a cost to operate the campus to the discharge rate of the AC power supplied by the stationary energy storage device. The controller applies constraints to the cost function, determines a minimizing solution to the cost function which satisfies the constraints, and controls the energy converter.