Patent ID: 8527105

Claim:
An energy monitoring system, comprising: energy consumption detection systems, each energy consumption system determines energy consumption values for a respective plurality of load devices, the energy consumption values being measures of the energy consumed by load devices during given time periods, wherein the plurality of load devices comprise: variable load devices, each of the variable load devices having selectable load states and energy consumption values ranging from an OFF energy consumption value to a maximum energy consumption value, wherein the energy consumption values are proportional to the selected load state of the variable load device; and non-variable load devices, each of the non-variable load devices having a single load state and energy consumption values ranging from a first energy consumption value to a maximum energy consumption value, wherein the energy consumption values correspond to the single load state of the non-variable load device; and load controller devices in data communication with the plurality of load devices, wherein each of the load controller devices communicate with the variable load devices to select the selectable load states of the variable load devices; and an energy aggregation module in data communication with the energy consumption detection systems and the load controller devices, wherein: for each of the variable load devices, the energy aggregation module: correlates each of the energy consumption values with the load state causing that energy consumption value based on which energy consumption values were received during selected load states; and generates an energy consumption profile specifying energy consumption values of the variable load device at different load states based on the correlation; for each of non-variable load devices, the energy aggregation module: receives energy consumption values corresponding to the single load state; and generates an energy consumption profile specifying energy consumption values of the non-variable load device; and the energy aggregation module generates environment energy consumption data for a given time period based on the load states and energy consumption profiles of the plurality of load devices.