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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2019
Caterpillar Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
Suresh B. Reddy, Peoria, IL (US);
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Abstract
A micro-grid system for providing power to a load includes a plurality of gensets and energy storage units (ESU) in parallel. An asset management controller is configured to determine a genset cost function for the gensets based on at least an efficient load factor, and determine an ESU cost function based on at least the a discharge power loss (DPL) and a charge power loss (CPL). The AMC assigns a priority to each ESU and each genset based on the cost function and selectively activates the power supplies based on the priority and a power demand of the load and a reserve. The AMC determines an available reserve among activated power supplies then selectively distributes the load among activated power supplies and reserve among the available reserve.