Patent ID: 9450417
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G06Q,H02J,Y02B,Y04S

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing an efficiency-driven operation of dispatchable generator sources and storage units in energy systems, comprising: selecting an efficient combination of available energy resources in an energy system to supply a current load level; assessing a storage unit's state of charge of a storage unit, availability for charge or discharge operation and efficiency; sending dispatch commands to generator sources and keeping the storage unit idle if charging or discharging the storage unit does not increase an overall efficiency of generation in the energy system; calculating charge or discharge of the storage unit and dispatching levels to maximize efficiency of the storage unit if charging or discharging the storage unit increases an overall efficiency of generation in the energy system; sending dispatch commands to the generator sources and charge or discharge commands to the storage unit for efficiency-driven operation of dispatchable generators and storage units in the energy system; and charging with a unit price of electricity (UPOE) determined at time step k when the generator sources 1 . . . n are charging the storage unit as where x 1 (k) represents the total stored amp-hour in the storage unit from generator sources 1 at time k and during discharging, x 1 to x n decreases with the same proportion.