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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2003
Gale Richard Horst, Watervliet, MI (US);
Jiannong Zhang, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Andriy Dmytrovych Syvokozov, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Gale Richard Horst, Watervliet, MI (US);
Jiannong Zhang, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Andriy Dmytrovych Syvokozov, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A system that facilitates and implements energy savings decisions by a home owner. The system will provide a mechanism to reduce the peak level of energy demand. A controller in logical communication with energy consuming appliances responds to request for energy from energy consuming appliances and devices by permitting or curtailing energy supply to the appliances or devices based on evaluation of a plurality of logical considerations. The controller may be operated to provide energy to fewer than all of the energy requesting appliances to reduce the energy demand on an energy supply source, including the instantaneous peak demand.