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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2023
Itron, Inc., Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Timothy James Driscoll, Raleigh, NC (US);
Donald Lloyd Reeves, Iii, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Benjamin Damm, Point Roberts, WA (US);
Juan Alemany, Liberty Lake, WA (US);
David Wu Ganger, Lakewood, CO (US);
Julia Ahopelto, Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Itron, Inc., Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system for disconnecting loads from the electrical grid are disclosed. An application programming interface (API) frontend of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) load shedding system may receive a load shedding activation command; in response to receiving the load shedding activation command, the API frontend may deploy a load shedding token to one or more electricity meters of the AMI load shedding system, and cause the one or more electricity meters to disconnect corresponding loads from the one or more electricity meters.