Patent ID: 8463450

Claim:
An aggregated management system for end user electricity consumer electricity loads in an electrical power system comprising: a plurality of end user electricity consumer electricity loads; an availability calculator for determining an availability of each end user electricity consumer electricity load for short term load curtailment according to a load's current operating conditions by monitoring process or equipment variables of the end user electricity consumer electricity load; a resource aggregator, wherein a plurality of end user electricity consumer electricity loads, depending on availability data from the availability calculator, are aggregated according to a common type and/or ownership of end user electricity consumer electricity load to represent at least one aggregated load, the or each aggregated load representing a potential increase or decrease in electricity demand to the electrical power system; a resource controller, wherein electricity consumption of each end user electricity consumer electricity load, depending on the determined availability for short term load curtailment, is selectively changed by the resource controller in response to a resource instruction sent to the at least one aggregated load; an interface to provide availability data of the at least one aggregated load from the resource aggregator and receive resource instructions regarding the at least one aggregated load for the resource controller; and an aggregated demand forecaster using data from the availability calculator to predict each electricity load's usage and to provide an aggregated demand forecast for the at least one aggregated load.