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Application US20190067940

Published 2019-02-28

Systems And Methods For Determining And Utilizing Customer Energy Profiles For Load Control For Individual Structures, Devices, And Aggregation Of Same

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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1. A system for active load management in an electric power grid based on customer energy profiles, comprising: a server processor constructed and configured for network communication with a multiplicity of service points in the electric power grid; wherein each of the multiplicity of service points comprises a multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices, wherein the multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices comprises at least one temperature control device; wherein the server processor is operable to: create a customer energy profile comprising an energy consumption pattern for each of the multiplicity of service points, send a first load control event to at least one service point in response to an energy reduction request including a target energy savings, generate a supply equivalent value for each of the multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices at each service point based on the customer energy profile for each service point, wherein the supply equivalent value is a measurement and a verification of a reduction in consumed power by each of the multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices, wherein the supply equivalent value is a curtailment value as a supply accepted by governing entities for awarding customers supply equivalence, and determine an energy savings at the at least one service point based on the supply equivalent value for each of the multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices at the at least one service point.
14. A system for active load management in an electric power grid based on customer energy profiles, comprising: a server processor constructed and configured for network communication with a multiplicity of service points in the electric power grid, wherein each of the multiplicity of service points comprises a multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices; wherein the server processor is operable to: create a multiplicity of customer energy profiles for the multiplicity of service points, send a load control event to at least one service point, generate a supply equivalent value for each of the multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices at each service point based on each customer energy profile for each service point, wherein the supply equivalent value is a measurement and a verification of a reduction in consumed power by each of the multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices, wherein the supply equivalent value is a curtailment value as a supply accepted by governing entities for awarding customers supply equivalence, and determine an energy savings at the at least one service point based on the supply equivalent value for each of the multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices at the at least one service point.
18. A system for active load management in an electric power grid based on customer energy profiles, comprising: a server processor constructed and configured for network communication with a database and a multiplicity of service points in the electric power grid, wherein each of the multiplicity of service points comprises a multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices; wherein the server processor is operable to: create a multiplicity of customer energy profiles for the multiplicity of service points, send a load control event to at least one service point in response to an energy reduction request including a target energy savings, generate a supply equivalent value for each of the multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices at each service point based on each customer energy profile for each service point, wherein the supply equivalent value is a measurement and a verification of a reduction in consumed power by each of the multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices, wherein the supply equivalent value is a curtailment value as a supply accepted by governing entities for awarding customers supply equivalence, calculate an energy savings at the at least one service point based on the supply equivalent value for each of the multiplicity of controllable energy consuming devices at the at least one service point, and determine the energy savings is at least equal to the target energy savings; wherein the database is operable to store the multiplicity of customer energy profiles and energy data resulting from the load control event.