Patent ID: 11962152
Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for controlling power consumption, comprising:
receiving a flexibility request from an electrical utility;
discovering energy relevant devices in a building, the energy relevant devices including electrical loads and alternative energy sources;
predicting a power requirement from an electrical utility for the loads, the prediction taking into account available power from the alternative power sources;
determining power set points for the energy relevant devices based on the predicted power requirement, wherein each power set point represents power consumption for an energy relevant device of the energy relevant devices in the building for a time period;
optimizing the power set points for the energy relevant devices such that the power set points represent power consumption at or below a new requested power consumption of the flexibility request, wherein the optimizing includes computing a baseline trajectory for one or more key performance indicators for a load selected from the energy relevant devices based on data extracted from the energy relevant devices;
directing the energy relevant devices to operate at the power set points;
determining whether the flexibility request is terminated; and
recursively updating the optimized power set points if the flexibility request is not terminated.