Patent ID: 8755943

Claim:
A method for controlling power consumption of a cooling system of a building space during a limited power period of a day, comprising: using a controller of the cooling system to observe cooling power use resulting from a temperature setpoint trajectory of a first day, wherein the temperature setpoint trajectory of the first day comprises a pre-cooling period and a limited power period; using a controller of the cooling system to calculate a deferred cooling power use resulting from a temperature setpoint trajectory of a first day, wherein the deferred cooling power use is identified by comparing the observed cooling power use to an expected cooling power use for a constant temperature setpoint during the limited power period of the first day; finding a target deferred cooling power use for a second day; finding a linear operator that transforms the deferred cooling power use observed during the limited power period of the first day to the target deferred cooling power use; and applying the linear operator to a changing temperature setpoint trajectory of the first day's limited power period to create a temperature setpoint trajectory of a second day.