Patent Document ID: 9792568
Application ID: 14353491
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for generating a capacity schedule for a facility to meet a predefined operational goal, wherein the facility is to receive resources from a first resource supply, said method comprising: a) accessing a prediction of a supply of resources available from the first resource supply for a predetermined period of time; b) accessing a prediction of a demand for resources in the facility during the predetermined period of time; c) inputting the prediction of the supply of resources and the prediction of the demand for resources into a constrained optimization problem, wherein a solution to the constrained optimization problem comprises the capacity schedule; d) generating the capacity schedule for the facility by finding a solution, by a processor, to the constrained optimization problem, including determining a total number of resource demand machines in the facility to be supported by the first resource supply according to the capacity schedule; and e) powering down or starting up, by the processor, additional resource demand machines in the facility to meet the total number of resource demand machines according to the capacity schedule.