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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2002
Willard H. Wattenburg, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
The CSU, Chico Research Foundation, Chico, CA (US);
Abstract
Consumer use of 240 VAC power can be reduced automatically by a power utility. A switch, remotely controllable by the power utility, can break the normal T -P and T -P power connections, and instead allow T to float, and coupled P and P together and via a current limiter to T The result is that in-phase 120 VAC is available from P or P but no 240 VAC is provided, thus eliminating power consumption by 240 VAC appliances. When the need to reduce 240 VAC power consumption has passed, the switch is reconfigured to again connect T -P and T -P The switch may be disposed on a power utility pole, or at a consumer's premises, before, after, or indeed within the consumer's power meter.
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