Patent ID: 8682495

Claim:
A method for configuring a microgrid, the method comprising: initializing a first configuration of the microgrid having at least one distributed energy resource and a set of microgrid elements, the set of microgrid elements being connected in a peer-to-peer processor network; verifying an address for each element in the set of microgrid elements; receiving status data from the set of microgrid elements that indicates a reconfiguration of the microgrid; responsive to receiving status data from the set of microgrid elements that indicates the reconfiguration of the microgrid, re-aligning the set of microgrid elements to form a second grid configuration; responsive to receiving status data from the set of microgrid elements that indicates the reconfiguration of the microgrid, wherein the reconfiguration includes failure of a master processor, re-designating a functional slave processor as a re-configured master processor; and executing the second grid configuration.