Patent ID: 8831788
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: H02J,Y02B,Y02E,Y04S

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: identifying, by a local device comprising one or more computer processors, one or more power sources and one or more electrical loads associated with a structure, wherein the one or more power sources are configured to supply power to the structure and a power grid associated with a power service provider; identifying, by the local device, a subset of the one or more electrical loads associated with the structure that are noncritical electrical loads; identifying, by the local device, one or more additional power sources associated with a group of one or more related structures geographically near the structure, wherein the one or more additional power sources are customer devices configured to supply power to at least one of the one or more related structures and a neighborhood grid that is connected to the power grid; monitoring, by the local device, one or more power grid parameters associated with the power grid and one or more neighborhood grid parameters associated with the neighborhood grid; identifying, by the local device, one or more pricing parameters associated with obtaining power from the power grid that comprises at least a current price associated with grid power; identifying, by the local device based on the monitoring of the one or more neighborhood grid parameters, one or more neighborhood grid fluctuations; identifying, by the local device based on the monitoring of: (i) the one or more power grid parameters and (ii) the one or more neighborhood grid fluctuations, a power grid fluctuation; and adjusting, by the local device based on the identification of the one or more pricing parameters and the power grid fluctuation, operation of at least one of the one or more power sources that comprises (i) directing, by the local device when a predefined frequency is identified, a sale of power supplied by at least one of the one or more additional power sources to the power grid and (ii) reducing the supply of power from the one or more power sources to the noncritical electrical loads in order to maintain power grid stability.