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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2012
Daniel Viassolo, Katy, TX (US);
Sridhar Sahukari, Houston, TX (US);
Gerald Murphy, Houston, TX (US);
BO Hesselbæk, Kolding, DK;
Jianhui Zhang, Houston, TX (US);
Aditya Upadhye, Malvern East, AU;
Yonatan Abebe, Houston, TX (US);
Jason Hoffman, Alburtis, PA (US);
Juan Santos, Katy, TX (US);
Brett Rollow, Katy, TX (US);
Daniel Viassolo, Katy, TX (US);
Sridhar Sahukari, Houston, TX (US);
Gerald Murphy, Houston, TX (US);
Bo Hesselbæk, Kolding, DK;
Jianhui Zhang, Houston, TX (US);
Aditya Upadhye, Malvern East, AU;
Yonatan Abebe, Houston, TX (US);
Jason Hoffman, Alburtis, PA (US);
Juan Santos, Katy, TX (US);
Brett Rollow, Katy, TX (US);
Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Aarhus N., DK;
Abstract
Embodiments for determining an optimal configuration for a renewable energy power plant are provided. The power plant, which may be a virtual power plant, includes one or more generator devices and one or more energy storage devices that may be operated to undertake one or more operating applications. Data indicative of the power output of the power plant and the voltage level at the energy storage system connection point is received as an input. Using this data, combinations of energy storage devices and operating applications stored on a database are processed and, for each energy storage and operating application pair, a value indicative of the profitability of undertaking the operating application is determined. These values are used to rank the combinations of energy storage devices and operating applications according to their profitability, which in turn is used to select the most efficient or profitable application/energy storage pair.