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Power generation system including predictive control apparatus to reduce influences of weather-varying factors

US8624411B2 · kind B2 · utility

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16Claims

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Assignee

General Electric Company · US

Inventors

Michael Schmidt · Boston, US
Christian Maria Anton Heller · Albany, US
Simon Herbert Schramm · Bayern, DE
Said Farouk Said El-Barbari · Garching bei München, DE
Mark Ronald Lynass · Munich, DE
Kathleen Ann O'Brien · Albany, US
Ralph Teichmann · Niskayuna, US
Owen Jannis Schelenz · Schenectady, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 14, 2011
Grant date	Jan 7, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 24, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH02J3/38
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A power generation system (10) for generating electrical power, which may vary in response to one or more weather-varying factors (11). The system may include an array of power generators (12) subject to the weather-varying factor. A module (18) may be configured to predict over a time horizon at least one power-generating condition for the array of power generators. A controller (24) may be configured to anticipatorily adjust a control strategy regarding operation of a component and/or subsystem of the power generation system based on the predicted power-generating condition for the array of power generators over the time horizon.

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