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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2021
China Energy Investment Corporation Limited, Beijing, CN;
National Institute of Clean-and-low-carbon Energy, Beijing, CN;
Ratnesh Sharma, Fremont, CA (US);
Surinder Singh, Fremont, CA (US);
Peng Yu, Fremont, CA (US);
You Zhou, Beijing, CN;
Lulu Zhao, Beijing, CN;
Brandon Ohara, Mountain View, CA (US);
China Energy Investment Corporation Limited, Beijing, CN;
National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy, Beijing, CN;
Abstract
An electrical energy storage system, a controller, and methods of using the same are provided. The system includes battery packs connected in parallel, one or more battery power management unit, one or more power converters, and a controller. The controller includes one or more processor and at least one tangible, non-transitory machine readable medium encoded with one or more programs configured to perform steps for discharging or charging. The steps include: reading data including state of health (SOH) and state of charge (SOC) from each battery pack, connecting a respective battery pack with a respective power converter; receiving a power command from an energy management system, calculating a respective power rate of each battery pack based on the data of SOH, SOC, and the power command, and discharging power from battery packs to a grid or charging power to battery packs based on the power rate of each battery pack.