Patent ID: 11876399
Assignee: 8ME NOVA, LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. A system, comprising:
a renewable energy power plant coupled to an energy grid, the renewable energy power plant comprising a battery energy storage system (BESS);
a device operating within the renewable energy power plant, the device having energy requirements and receiving energy from the BESS;
an energy offset system;
a processor, the processor operatively coupled to computer memory and configured by machine-readable instructions to:
determine the BESS is not charging with energy from the energy grid and is not discharging energy to the energy grid; and
responsive to (i) the determination that the BESS is not charging with energy from the energy grid and is not discharging energy to the energy grid, and (ii) determining the energy requirements of the device are currently not satisfied:
identify an amount of energy that is needed to satisfy the energy requirements of the device in combination with energy provided by the BESS to the device; and
direct the identified amount of energy from the energy offset system to the device by changing a state of a switch directing energy from the energy offset system to the device;

wherein the processor is further configured to:
charge a second BESS with energy generated by the energy offset system during a first time period;
determine the BESS is not providing enough energy to satisfy the energy requirements of the device during a second time period subsequent to the first time period;
calculate a second amount of energy that is needed to satisfy the energy requirements of the device in combination with energy provided by the BESS; and
discharge the calculated second amount of energy from the second BESS to the device during the second time period.