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Application US20190372345
Published 2019-12-05
Methods And Systems For An Automated Utility Marketplace Platform
A platform and components for an automated consumer retail utility marketplace are provided, including components for machine learning, components for gamification, and components for supporting a related consumer mobile application that enables improved visibility and control by a consumer over its interaction with energy markets.
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- 1. A user interface through which a consumer accesses an energy marketplace, the user interface comprising:
a first visual element representing a real-time price of a type of energy available to the consumer over a consumer energy distribution network for a current time interval, wherein the first visual element is updated at least once per time interval; and a second visual element representing estimated prices for energy from different raw energy sources for a future time interval, wherein the second visual element is updated at least once per time interval based on a time interval-specific calculation of the estimated prices, wherein user interactions with the second visual element results in allocation of at least one of the raw energy sources to produce energy for consumption by the consumer in the at least one future time interval.
- 4. A method for a consumer to manage energy, the method comprising:
gathering consumer energy usage measurements for energy generated from a plurality of different types of energy sources and consumed by the consumer over discrete time intervals; allocating the gathered consumer energy usage measurements for each of the different types of energy consumed to an energy source for each type of the different types of energy within the discrete time intervals; calculating a cost of energy usage for each type of the different types of energy consumed in the discrete time intervals by processing the consumer energy usage measurements for each type of energy consumed and the energy source for each type of the different types of energy with an energy pricing engine that tracks real-time cost of energy sourced from the plurality of different types of energy sources; aggregating the calculated cost of energy usage across each type of the different types of energy for each time interval; and presenting the aggregated calculated cost of energy usage and calculated costs of at least two sources of energy for each discrete time interval in a user interface.
