Patent ID: 7215109

Claim:
An electric power usage monitoring and reporting process, comprising the steps of: a) acquiring raw power usage and demand data including KW readings recorded on periodic intervals from electric interval power meters located at a plurality of commonly owned or leased properties; b) transmitting and storing this raw data at a central location remote from said meters; c) processing said raw data over a standard billing period after the close of the billing period by: (i) computing contiguous KW values for all the intervals in said billing period for all said electric power meters across all said properties, (ii) computing KWH values from the KW values and summing KWH values over said billing period for on-peak and off-peak times for all said properties in order to generate on-peak and off-peak KWH sums for each property; (iii) aggregating said KWH sums together across all said properties in order to produce aggregate KWH on-peak and off-peak totals, and (iv) identifying maximum KW demand values for all said intervals over said billing period with respect to each property, and (v) aggregating said KW demand values together across all said properties to produce aggregate KW demand figures for all said intervals over said billing period and identifying an aggregate KW coincident demand total across all said properties over said billing period; and d) reporting said KWH sums and aggregate totals together with said maximum KW values and coincident aggregate KW demand total for use in electric power usage billing processes.