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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2008
Brian Golden, Great Falls, VA (US);
Courtney Mcmahan, Arlington, VA (US);
David Hakim, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Edward Shnekendorf, Falls Church, VA (US);
Brian Golden, Great Falls, VA (US);
Courtney McMahan, Arlington, VA (US);
David Hakim, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Edward Shnekendorf, Falls Church, VA (US);
GridPoint, Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for managing power consumption and storage in a power grid. Measurements are received from a plurality of geographically distributed energy management controllers. Each energy management controllers has energy storage units with stored energy. The measurements comprise the energy production and storage capacity of the energy management controllers and their associated energy storage units. The measurements are processed, e.g., aggregated, and displayed on a graphical user interface. Commands are transmitted to a first subset of the energy management controllers to command the units to discharge their stored energy into a power grid through an inverter. Commands are transmitted to a second subset of the plurality of energy management controllers to store energy in each unit's energy storage unit.