Flexibility-based ranking of utility customers for determining constraints on power demand
US10852759B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 19, 2018 |
| Grant date | Dec 1, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 21, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY04S20/222
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques and mechanisms for determining constraints to be imposed on resource utilization by customers of an electric utility. In an embodiment, flexibility metrics are determined each for a different respective customer, the flexibility metrics each indicating a respective difference between a metric of resource utilization, and a respective constraint which is imposed on that resource utilization. The customers are ranked, relative to one another, based on the flexibility metrics, where the ranking is used as a basis for selecting one or more customers to accommodate a change to a power delivery service of the electric utility. In another embodiment, one or more updated utilization constraints are imposed each by a respective customer of one or more selected customers.
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