There is provided a method, a system, a storage medium and an orchestrator to enable a computer resource of a computing pool. In particular, the methods and apparatuses of the present disclosure are configured to enable a computing resource (16) of one or more computing pools (17), the computing resource (16) being in communication with a converter (13) of a renewable energy source (12). The methods and apparatuses may be configured to: tracking an electrical consumption of one or more electrical appliances (14) in communication with the converter; enabling the computing resource (16) in response to determining a surplus of renewable electrical energy provided by the renewable energy source (12); and to determining that there is computation demand from the one or more computing pools (17); and to determining that an estimated efficiency of use of the renewable energy is greater when responding to the demand of the one or more computing pools (17) than when injecting the renewable energy into an electrical grid (11) in communication with the converter (13).

A charging and discharging switching apparatus is disclosed that includes a first switch, a second switch, a switching power supply, and a control unit. A first end of the first switch is configured to connect to a power supply device, a second end of the first switch is configured to connect to a load device, and the second end of the first switch is further separately connected to a first end of the second switch and the switching power supply. A second end of the second switch is configured to connect to a new energy vehicle.

A power management system includes a first server configured to manage electric vehicle supply equipment in a microgrid and a second server configured to manage power supply and demand balance of a power system. The electric vehicle supply equipment is configured to execute a charging and discharging operation that suppresses a voltage fluctuation of the microgrid by exchanging power between the microgrid and a vehicle, and a reactive power compensation operation that suppresses a voltage fluctuation of the power system by controlling reactive power of the microgrid.

A system includes a first AC bus configured to supply power from a first generator. A second AC bus is configured to supply power from a second generator. An AC essential bus tie contactor (AETC) selectively connects between an AC essential bus and the first and second AC busses. An AETC controller is connected to switch the AETC between a first state connecting the AC essential bus to the first AC bus and a second state connecting the AC essential bus to the second AC bus. A sensor system is configured to detect at least one of delta current and overcurrent in the AC essential bus and in at least one of the first AC bus and the second AC bus. The sensor system is operatively connected to the AETC controller for switching the AETC between the first state and the second state based on input from the sensor system.

Systems and methods for power generation forecasting in a microgrid are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system comprises at least one processor; and memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, the instructions when executed cause the system to: obtain weather information; extract, from the weather information, one or more weather events, the one or more weather events including a first event, wherein the first event causes reduction of power generation of a power generation system; determine a condition of one or more components of the power generation system based on the first weather event; and determine future power generation by the power generation system based on the determined condition of the power generation system.

An electrical power distribution control system configured to issue a demand response signal to cut power to a plurality of electrical power consuming loads within an electrical power distribution network to reduce a peak power demand within an electrical power grid during a peak power demand. Unlike conventional demand response systems, the controller in each consumer residence includes both a distributed control based on the ability to track individual 24 hour usage patterns and selectively delay the demand response signal on individual resistive heating loads based on usage patterns for the purpose of reducing a likelihood of consumers experiencing effects of the reduced peak power demand.

Described herein is a monitoring installation and a monitoring system for monitoring and/or controlling at least one electrical parameter in an electrical supply system, as well as to an associated computer program.

The present invention provides an active distribution network physics-information fusion control method for a hybrid system model includes an initialization time being a starting time, predicting power output and load of a feeder intermittent distributed power supply within a control time period T, calculating a feeder exchange power deviation variation ΔP(t) during the control time period, if being a fixed distribution coefficient, and establishing a hybrid system model for feeder power coordinated control; if being a rolling distribution coefficient, an exchange power P(t) of the control region at time t being obtained, generating a distribution coefficient matrix W(t), and establishing the hybrid system model of the said feeder power coordinated control; confirming a control objective function min J, converting it into a MIQP, obtaining a full period control quantity; selecting a first control quantity P of the optimized control sequence, sending the first control quantity P to the control device.

A power management system includes a first receiver for receiving information specifying reverse power flow from a base power meter measuring at least the reverse power flow output from a facility to a power grid, a second receiver for receiving information specifying each of individual output powers of two or more adjustment power supplies provided in the facility, and a controller for specifying each of individual reverse power flows of the two or more adjustment power supplies managed as the reverse power flow. The controller specifies individual reverse power flows of the two or more adjustment power supplies, by executing a correction process of correcting a discrepancy between a sum of the individual output powers of the two or more adjustment power supplies and the reverse power flow based on the individual output powers of the two or more adjustment power supplies.

The distributed power supply system includes: a communicator configured to receive a first message from a power management server configured to control the distributed power supply and receive a second message from an equipment management server configured to monitor the distributed power supply; and a controller configured to control the distributed power supply based on the first message and the second message. If the first message and the second message conflict with each other, the controller controls the distributed power supply based on the second message preferentially over the first message.