Patent ID: 11870260
Assignee: POWER ENGINEERS, INCORPORATED
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A Master Grid Controller (MGC),
the MGC controller being a dedicated MGC for two or more energy generation facilities that is separate and distinct from energy generation facility control units for each of the two or more energy generation facilities, the MGC controller providing control signals to the respective energy generation facility control units of the two or more energy generation facilities, the MGC including:
an MGC data collection module, the MGC data collection module being operatively coupled to two or more energy generation facility output monitoring lines to receive energy generation facility output data from the two or more energy generation facilities, each of the two or more energy generation facilities including an energy generation facility control unit for controlling the energy generation sources that are associated with that energy generation facility to provide a desired electrical energy output from that energy generation facility;
the MGC data collection module being operatively coupled to the Point of Utilization (POU) monitoring line to receive POU data from a POU;
an MGC data analysis module, the MGC data analysis module being operatively coupled to the MGC data collection module to receive the POU data and the energy generation facility output data, the MGC data analysis module monitoring and analyzing the POU data to determine if a voltage at the POU is within a desired POU voltage band wherein,
if the MGC data analysis module determines the voltage at the POU is not within the desired POU voltage band, the MGC data analysis module generates control signals to be sent to the respective energy generation facility control units of each of the two or more energy generation facilities, the control signals being output voltage control signals used to adjust voltage control set points of each of the two or more energy generation facilities at their respective POIs in a manner necessary to bring the voltage at the POU into the desired POU voltage band,
the MGC data analysis module monitoring and analyzing the energy generation facility output data to identify where reactive power is being exchanged between any of the two or more energy generation facilities wherein,
if the MGC data analysis module identifies reactive power is being exchanged between any of the two or more energy generation facilities, the MGC data analysis module generates control signals to be sent to the respective energy generation facility control units of two or more energy generation facilities, the control signals being used to reduce the exchanged reactive power and to balance the reactive power produced between each of the two or more energy generation facilities; and

an MGC control signal transfer module operatively coupled to receive the control signals from the MGC data analysis module, the MGC control signal transfer module operatively coupled to two or more control signal lines for relaying the control signals to the respective energy generation facility control units of each of the two or more energy generation facilities.