Patent ID: 7136725
Filing Date: 2006-11-14
Classification: H02J,Y02B,Y04S

Abstract:
1. In a power system having a power grid providing electrical power to a plurality of subscribers, the power system configured to provide advance notification to each subscriber whose electrical load is to be entirely shed from the power grid, the power system further including a plurality of providers providing electrical power services to the plurality of subscribers, and a control authority independent of said plurality of providers, said control authority determining when electrical load must be shed from the power grid, a method comprising: providing a notification database of the selection of which of a plurality of notification methods is desired by each said subscriber to be used for notifying at least one subscriber of the plurality of subscribers of an impending change in the connection of the entire electrical load of said at least one subscriber to the power grid; the control authority issuing to at least one of the plurality of providers a directive to perform an operative action for shedding electrical load to the power grid wherein a performance of the operative action is only capable of being performed by said at least one provider and incapable of being performed by any said subscriber, determining which of the plurality of subscribers, is to have electrical load entirely shed from the power grid; automatically determining from the notification database which of said plurality of notification methods are to be used for notifying said at least one subscriber of the impending change in the connection of the entire electrical load of said at least one subscriber to the power grid in response to said determining which of the plurality of subscribers is to have electrical load entirely shed from the power grid; and, notifying said at least one subscriber by the at least one notification method in said notification database prior to performance of the operative action.