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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2009
Anurag Jagota, Plano, TX (US);
Roy J. Davis, Rowlett, TX (US);
Vijayan J. Thottuvelil, Addison, TX (US);
Anurag Jagota, Plano, TX (US);
Roy J. Davis, Rowlett, TX (US);
Vijayan J. Thottuvelil, Addison, TX (US);
Lineage Power Corporation, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of a DC plant controller, methods of selecting among multiple power sources and DC plants incorporating the DC plant controller or the method. In one embodiment, the DC plant controller includes: (1) a source identifier configured to identify power sources couplable to a common DC bus, (2) a source prioritizer coupled to the source identifier and configured to prioritize the power sources based on at least one criterion and (3) an output characteristic assigner coupled to the source prioritizer and configured to assign output characteristics to the power sources that differ from one another as a function of the priority.