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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 15, 2017
Applicant:

Racepoint Energy, Llc, Osterville, MA (US);

Inventors:

Robert P. Madonna, Osterville, MA (US);

Siegmar K. Eschholz, Southwest Harbor, ME (US);

Anna E. Demeo, Southwest Harbor, ME (US);

William H. Dillon, Philomath, OR (US);

Assignee:

Racepoint Energy, LLC, Osterville, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/06 (2012.01); H02J 3/00 (2006.01); H02J 9/04 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01); H02J 3/008 (2013.01); H02J 9/04 (2013.01); H02J 2203/20 (2020.01); H02J 2310/14 (2020.01); H02J 2310/64 (2020.01); Y02B 70/30 (2013.01); Y04S 20/222 (2013.01); Y04S 20/242 (2013.01); Y04S 50/10 (2013.01); Y04S 50/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

A group of homes, businesses, or other electric power consuming premises are aggregated and commonly controlled to dynamically reduce loads in sufficient quantities, and with sufficient rapidity and duration, to participate as a market participant in the energy markets including participating as a peaking power plant. While the amount of reduced power consumption for a single premises is typically quite small, the total reduced consumption of an aggregation of just a few thousand homes or businesses may be on the order of hundreds of kilowatts. A premises power controller in conjunction with intelligent circuit breakers, which may include dimmers, enable dynamic management of individual loads in each premises.


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