Coordinated net-load management

Patent · 22 February 2022

OSTI ID:1892649

Lundstrom, Blake Richard; Patel, Sourav Kumar; Salapaka, Murti

A management device includes at least one processor communicatively coupled to at least one energy resource controller controlling at least one energy resource and to at least one deferrable load controller controlling power to at least one deferrable load. The is configured to receive an indication, determined based on a frequency value of an electrical network and a nominal frequency value, that a frequency anomaly event has occurred. Responsive to receiving the indication that the frequency anomaly event has occurred, the processor is also configured to determine, for at least one of the energy resource and the deferrable load, based on the frequency value, the nominal frequency value, and a power value of the electrical network, a respective power command, and cause at least one of the at least one energy resource and the at least one deferrable load to modify operation based on the respective power command.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308; AR0000701
• Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, CO); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
• Patent Number(s): 11,258,300
• Application Number: 16/931,738
• OSTI ID: 1892649
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English