Patent Document ID: 20170005515
Application ID: 14791420
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of mode selection management in a distributed energy resource energy storage apparatus, comprising: providing one or more distributed energy resource energy storage (DER-ES) apparatus at a user site, each DER-ES apparatus having a housing at each of the one or more site meters at the user site location, each DER-ES apparatus further having one or more energy storage devices in an intelligent energy storage compartment, one or more inverters, one or more charge controllers, one or more gateway controllers each having one or more computer programs performing instructions from one or more processors, a common DC bus, and an integrated, engineered power and signal processing system that together allows each DER-ES apparatus to function as a site integration system; automatically setting one or more distributed energy resource energy storage apparatus to charge one or more renewable energy storage devices; providing one or more gateway controllers having one or more programs controlling one or more distributed energy resources associated with each of the one or more DER-ES apparatus associated with one or more user sites; automatically polling each of the one or more programs for a requested mode at a reporting interval; assigning a ranking identifier to the requested mode of each of the one or more programs; and determining a highest priority set of programs from among the requested mode of each of the one or more programs.