Patent ID: 9280796
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G06Q,H02J,Y02B,Y02E,Y04S

Claim Text:
1. A system for assisting the supply of a consumable resource used by a plurality of loads of a user receiving the resource from one or more suppliers, comprising: a plurality of user-located load level intelligent controllers, each associated with at least one user load connected in a supplier network that supplies the resource to loads, each such controller comprising: a connection for applying user's stored reserves of the consumable resource or user generating capacity to the supplier network, said connection being in communication with at least one load level controller or group controller; and a control computer program executing on at least one load level controller or group controller, said computer program being responsive to a trigger signal directly from a supplier or based on power quality calculations of a load level controller to initiate providing the supplier network access to at least one of the user's stored reserves of the consumable resource or the user's generating capacity.