Patent ID: 11927976
Assignee: GRIDPOINT, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of controlling energy consumption of a plurality of energy consuming devices at a premises, each of the plurality of energy consuming devices being controlled by a corresponding load controller, each load controller being communicatively coupled to one of a plurality of distributed energy management controllers, the plurality of distributed energy management controllers being communicatively coupled to a computer system of an operations control center, comprising:
sending a notification of a demand response request from the operations control center to customers associated with each distributed energy management controller, the notification including a schedule of an associated demand response event;
receiving acknowledgement of the demand response request from one or more customers associated with each one of the plurality of distributed energy management controllers;
transmitting a command from the operations control center to at least one of the plurality of distributed energy management controllers to curtail or engage one or more of the plurality of energy consuming devices according to the schedule of the associated demand response event;
generating, by the computer system of the operations control center, a report that indicates how much load can be expected to be shed from each premises associated with a corresponding energy management controller based upon the acknowledgement from each customer and an aggregated estimate of a size of an expected load reduction based on historical load measurements; and
executing, by the energy management controllers at the premises, the curtail or engage commands at a scheduled time according to the schedule of the associated demand response event.