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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2020
Johnson Controls Technology Company, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Robert D. Turney, Watertown, WI (US);
Nishith R. Patel, Madison, WI (US);
Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
An air handling unit (AHU) or rooftop unit (RTU) or other building device in a building includes one or more powered components and is used with a battery, and a predictive controller The battery is configured to store electric energy and discharge the stored electric energy for use in powering the powered components. The predictive controller is configured to optimize a predictive cost function to determine an optimal amount of electric energy to purchase from an energy grid and an optimal amount of electric energy to store in the battery or discharge from the battery for use in powering the powered components at each time step of an optimization period.