Patent ID: 11888334
Assignee: CATERPILLAR INC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method of allocating power across a microgrid having a plurality of energy storage systems with different power and/or energy capacities, and different states of charge; the method comprising:
allocating a total charge request and/or a total discharge request across the energy storage systems;
limiting charge and/or discharge of each of the plurality of energy storage systems to a submaximal value for a window, wherein the submaximal value is a function of the total charge request or the total discharge request and a convergence factor; and
linearly increasing the charge and/or discharge of each of the plurality of energy storage systems after the window, and wherein the window ends when all of the energy storage systems have reached their said respective submaximal values.