Disclosed is a power management device including a monitoring unit configured to monitor power usage statuses of a plurality of sites individually, a determination unit configured to determine whether to supply the surplus power to a second site of the plurality of sites when the monitoring unit detects that surplus power is generated in a first site of the plurality of sites in accordance with a prediction of a power transmission loss between the first site and the second site, and a site control unit configured to instruct the first site to supply the surplus power to the second site when the determination unit determines that the surplus power is to be supplied to the second site.

Embodiments of the invention are directed toward a computer-implemented interactive diagnostic medical records system operated in conjunction with at least one user device. Interactive processing components provide collaborative interaction between a user and at least one database, the collaboration including deployment of a search module in response to a query associated with the user device, and a diagnostic inquiry module comprising an interactive sequence of at least two linked inquiries transmitted to the user device. In one embodiment, the diagnostic inquiry module is operable to assign a value or “weight” to the user responses to the interactive sequence of at least two linked inquiries. User interface tools may further be associated with the user device for accepting input from the diagnostic inquiry module and correspondingly displaying output as determined by the interactive processing components.

An embodiment relates to a trash collection device comprising a trash receptacle with a unique identification and an opening to receive a class of trash; an identification scanner for recognizing a user; a trash item counter; a fill level sensor; a display configured to interact with the user; a compactor; a solar panel configured to charge a battery; a data communicator configured to communicate date to a cloud storage; a processor configured to generate incentive for the user; wherein the trash collection device is configured to be modular and configurable to connect with another similar trash collection device to enable to collect additional trash class and is configured to interact with each other through a common software. The device, method and system are further used to generate recycling analytics by using the stored data to provide incentives to users and to facilitate planning of downstream operations.

Systems and methods for identifying optimal siting locations for an energy storage system. Siting locations are identified based on a value index derived from pricing data associated with a plurality of nodes on an electrical grid. An index is derived for each selected node of the plurality of nodes to produce a siting recommendation.

A method of controlling a wind power plant including an energy storage device, the wind power plant being connected to a power grid and comprising one or more wind turbine generators that produce electrical power for delivery to the power grid, the method comprising: processing input data related to one or more inputs to the wind power plant to determine a probability forecast for each input; and controlling charging and discharging of the energy storage device in accordance with each probability forecast and a prescribed probability of violating one or more grid requirements.

A method and a system for energy scheduling of shared energy storage considering degradation cost of energy storage. Provided herein relates to energy scheduling for multiple microgrids. The method includes: acquiring energy data of each of microgrids in a multi-microgrid system of shared energy storage; establishing a peer-to-peer trading model between each of the microgrids; establishing a shared energy storage trading model between the multi-microgrid system and the shared energy storage device thereof; establishing a utility grid trading model between the multi-microgrid system and the utility grid thereof; and based on the peer-to-peer trading model, the shared energy storage trading model and the utility grid trading model, setting an objective of minimizing a total operating cost of the multi-microgrid system, and solving an objective function corresponding to the objective to acquire power data of each of the microgrids at each stage.

An object is to provide an electric power system planning operation device, a method, and a system that can realize the reduction of social costs and the improvement of the resilience of an electric power system. An electric power system planning operation device against occurrence of a disaster includes: a disaster information selection unit that selects disaster information data of a disaster type to be handled, to be used as disaster information selection result data, from disaster information data for each disaster type; a disaster countermeasure candidate calculation unit that calculates a disaster countermeasure candidate, to be used as disaster countermeasure candidate calculation result data, by using the disaster information selection result data, system maintenance countermeasure candidate data that is information about performing maintenance of a system facility in preparation for a disaster, and system operation countermeasure candidate data that is information about defining a system operation countermeasure in preparation for a disaster; a reliability economic efficiency index value calculation unit that calculates a reliability economic efficiency index value for the disaster countermeasure candidate calculation result, to be used as reliability economic efficiency index value data, by using the disaster countermeasure candidate calculation result data, system data that is information about the configuration of an electric power system, damage cost data that is information about the amount of damage at the time of an assumed disaster type, and reliability economic efficiency index data that is information indexing a relation between reliability and economic efficiency; and a disaster countermeasure decision unit that decides a disaster countermeasure by using the reliability economic efficiency index value data.

In accordance with various exemplary embodiments, solar energy shade structures and methods of design and revenue generation are disclosed. These systems comprise structures capable of supporting solar panel at heights greater than 18 feet above their mounting surface. These systems may be installed in confined spaces. These systems also comprise structures that are customizable, allowing an installation to be configured with a desired lighting and environmental effect. The methods discussed herein describe processes for achieving desired design effects based on natural elements. Moreover, the methods discussed herein describe processes for reducing the costs of generating solar energy and/or reducing the costs of providing a solar structure.

Embodiments are directed towards real time display of event records and extracted values based on at least one extraction rule, such as a regular expression. A user interface may be employed to enable a user to have an extraction rule automatically generate and/or to manually enter an extraction rule. The user may be enabled to manually edit a previously provided extraction rule, which may result in real time display of updated extracted values. The extraction rule may be utilized to extract values from each of a plurality of records, including event records of unstructured machine data. Statistics may be determined for each unique extracted value, and may be displayed to the user in real time. The user interface may also enable the user to select at least one unique extracted value to display those event records that include an extracted value that matches the selected value.

A method and system of controlling the time dependent transfer of electrical power between a first electrical network and a second electrical network is disclosed. The first electrical network is operable to provide instantaneous electrical power to the second electrical network located at a location, the second electrical network includes electrical generating capacity at the location based on stored energy accessible at the location. The method and system involves receiving at the second electrical network pricing information from the first electrical network, the pricing information associated with the future supply of electrical power by the first electrical network to the second electrical network and then modifying substantially in real time the transfer of electrical power between the first and second electrical networks in accordance with the pricing information and the electricity demand characteristics of the location.