Patent ID: 8880231

Claim:
An enterprise energy automation system comprising: a communications interface configured to conduct electronic data communications with a plurality of building automation systems in a group of buildings and with an energy supply and delivery system; and processing electronics communicably connected with the communications interface, wherein the processing electronics are configured to: (a) monitor data from the energy supply and delivery system; (b) extract data from the plurality of building automation systems; (c) determine an energy performance model for each of the plurality of building automation systems using the extracted data from the plurality of building automation systems, wherein each energy performance model comprises a speed of response to a load shifting strategy and a magnitude of load shifting available; (d) use the energy performance model for each of the plurality of building automation systems to build a portfolio-wide energy performance model defining a flexibility of the portfolio of buildings on both a day-ahead and real-time basis, wherein the portfolio-wide energy performance model anticipates a monetary award for providing an energy supply and delivery system product to non-portfolio buildings as part of a potential operating strategy for the plurality of building automation systems and uses the anticipated award to estimate a portfolio revenue resulting from the potential operating strategy; (e) determine an optimum operating strategy for the plurality of building automation systems using the portfolio-wide energy performance model and pricing information received as a part of the monitored data from the energy supply and delivery system; and (f) send a bid to the energy supply and delivery system for providing the energy supply and delivery system product as a part of the determined optimum operating strategy, wherein the bid results in the anticipated award.