Patent Document ID: 10077915
Application ID: 14433860
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method of optimizing demand-response (DR) of a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system of a building, the method executed by the computer comprising the steps of: determining a value of an objective function F ij of a HVAC system for each of a plurality of demand-response (DR) strategies j for each of a plurality of weather patterns i that is a weighted sum of an energy cost of the HVAC system and a thermal comfort loss of the HVAC system; assigning a likelihood score L i,j to each of a selected subset of DR strategies j for each weather pattern i; selecting the DR strategies with overall likelihood scores L j that exceed a pre-defined threshold to create an optimal strategy pool of DR strategies, wherein said optimal strategy pool can be searched in real-time for an optimal DR strategy for a given weather pattern; and changing an operational HVAC parameter in the HVAC system based at least in part on the selected DR strategies.