Patent ID: 8655497

Claim:
A system for regulating electrical and thermal energy generated by at least one energy generation system in at least one multi-source energy plant provided to receive or supply electrical power from or to other multi-source energy plants through an electric network; said at least one energy generation system being one of a cogeneration energy system and a trigeneration energy system; said energy generation system comprising a generation module configured to be fed with a fuel flow and generate electrical and thermal power; said multi-source energy plant comprising one or more auxiliary sources of at least one of electrical and thermal energy configured to exchange at least one of electrical power (Pev, Pec, Pea) and thermal power (Pb, Ptsin, Ptc, Ptsout, Ptw, Pta, Pfc) with said generation module and one or more loads comprising at least one of electrical and thermal apparatuses configured to receive and use at least one of said electrical power and thermal power supplied by at least one of said generation module, said auxiliary sources and said electric network; said energy generation system further comprising an electronic unit provided to: implement a pre-set multi-objective function (Fmo) comprising, for each multi-source energy plant, first computation parameters (PTi, Oi) including values of electrical and thermal powers exchanged within said multi-source plant between said generation module, said loads, said auxiliary sources and said electric network; and second (Ci, Ai) and third (Ni) computation parameters related to management costs and to efficiency of generation and exchange of electrical and thermal powers within said multi-source energy plant; determine optimal values (PUi) of the electrical and thermal powers (Ptsin, Ptc, Ptw, Pta, Pev, Pec, Pea) that said energy generation system should output to minimize said multi-objective function (Fmo); and vary the electrical and thermal powers (Ptsin, Ptc, Ptw, Pta, Pev, Pec, Pea) generated by said generation module as a function of said determined optimal values (PUi).