System and method for determining and utilizing customer energy profiles for load control for individual structures, devices, and aggregation of same
US8131403B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 9, 2010 |
| Grant date | Mar 6, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 27, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q10/00
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for creating and making use of customer profiles, including energy consumption patterns. Devices within a service point, using the active load director, may be subject to control events, often based on customer preferences. These control events cause the service point to use less power. Data associated with these control events, as well as related environment data, are used to create an energy consumption profile for each service point. This can be used by the utility to determine which service points are the best targets for energy consumption. In addition, an intelligent load rotation algorithm determines how to prevent the same service points from being picked first each time the utility wants to conserve power.
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