Patent ID: 8903554
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A forward-looking method for determining an economically optimal energy dispatching schema to meet heating, cooling and electrical demands, comprising: (a) having an energy plant comprising a plurality of heating and cooling equipment for producing heat and cooling, wherein said equipment comprises one or more heaters, one or more chillers, one or more heat recovery chillers, one or more hot thermal storage tanks, and one or more cold thermal storage tanks, wherein said equipment consuming electricity for said heating and cooling; (b) having a facilities plant comprising a plurality of facilities consuming electricity and at least some of said facilities consuming said produced heat and cooling from said energy plant; (c) a computer-implemented program executable on a computer for determining said economically optimal energy dispatching schema to meet heating, cooling and electrical loads by said energy plant and said facilities plant, (d) using said determined optimal energy dispatching schema for: (p) real time energy dispatching by said energy plant for one or more of said plurality of incremental time segments defined in said forward-looking time period, (pp) an existing energy plant optimization over said forward looking time period, (ppp) a new energy plant planning and design over said forward looking time period or any other forward-looking time period.