Systems and methods dynamically assess energy efficiency by obtaining a minimum energy consumption of a system, receiving in a substantially continuous way a measurement of actual energy consumption of the system, and comparing the minimum energy consumption to the measurement of actual energy consumption to calculate a substantially continuous energy performance assessment. The system further provides at least one of a theoretical minimum energy consumption based at least in part on theoretical performance limits of system components, an achievable minimum energy consumption based at least in part on specifications for high energy efficient equivalents of the system components, and the designed minimum energy consumption based at least in part on specifications for the system components.

A power controller configured to fit in a circuit breaker panel powering one or more loads. The power controller is further configured to manage critical loads of the one or more loads each controlled by a component that is capable of being actuated by the power controller and operated from a smartphone via the power controller, wherein the critical loads need not be wired to a dedicated circuit breaker panel.

A site management system has a site management device located on a fielded site, which has a controller unit integral with a power provision unit, and the power provision unit receives an input voltage via a conductor cable and delivers power to one or more receptacles. Additionally, the system has a plurality of remote devices communicatively coupled to the site management device over a wireless network and at least one off-site computing device communicatively coupled to the site management device. Further, the system has a processor on the controller unit that communicatively couples with at least one remote device, receives data indicative of a unique identifier from the wireless remote device, and determines whether the unique identifier correlates with a remote device of an individual who is permissively on the fielded site. In addition, the processor transits data indicative of the individual and data indicative of whether the individual is permissively on the fielded site to the off-site computing device or a site manager's remote device.

The disclosure provides a method for calculating a parameter changing domain of loads under a case that guarantees a constant locational marginal price in an electricity market, which relates to the electricity market field of the power system. With the method in the disclosure, the clearing model on the locational marginal price in the general form is established, and the safe changing domain of the locational marginal price with respect to the loads may be derived and calculated based on the first-order KKT condition expansion of the clearing model on the locational marginal price in the general form. When the increment of the nodal loads is subordinate to the changing domain, the locational marginal price may remain unchanged. The parameter changing domain of loads in the power system may be used for the comprehensive evaluation of power market clearing results and assisting the operation of the power market.

Systems and methods are described herein that improve grid performance by smoothing demand using thermal reserves. The smoothed demand can reduce peak loads as well as the ramp rate of demand that will otherwise require the use of inefficient, expensive generation sources. These improvements are tied to the selective switching on or off electrical loads that are coupled to thermal reserves, effectively using the thermal reserves as an energy storage mechanism. Historical data of past usage can be used to create load model and ensure that effects on customer comfort are minimized while still accomplishing the beneficial effects for the overall grid, which enables grid owners to both reduce their operational cost by avoiding expensive generation and improve system reliability by achieving more predictable power demand.

Systems and methods related to resource distribution for a fleet of machines are disclosed. A system may include a fleet of machines each having an associated resource capacity and a resource requirement to perform a task. The system may further include a controller having a resource requirement circuit to determine an aggregated amount of the resource requirement and an aggregated amount of the resource capacity. A resource distribution circuit may adaptively improve, in response to an aggregated amount of the resource capacity, an aggregated resource delivery of the resource.

A method and device which operates to record and evaluate an output of electrical energy of a hybrid power plant, wherein, in accordance with time and/or load, at least one expected generable and usable energy contribution resulting from the utilization of renewable energy sources and one expected energy contribution resulting from the utilization of convention energy carriers are recorded with different tariffs.

A robot for charging a vehicle is provided. The robot has wheels or configured for a track for the robot to automatically move to the vehicle to provide charge to a battery of the vehicle. A charge storage is associated with the robot. An articulating arm of the robot. The articulating arm is configured for movement that enables the articulating arm to automatically connect to a connector of the vehicle after the robot moves in position beside the vehicle for providing charge to the battery of the vehicle.

A method for distributed assignment of yields of a facility to participating persons on the basis of a smart meter gateway network comprising smart meter gateways comprises storing information with regard to participation of a person in the facility, in a chain of data sets cryptographically linked to one another in the smart meter gateway network; storing a smart contract in a chain of data sets, the smart contract being uniquely allocated to the facility and containing facility parameters necessary to calculate yields of the facility; receiving energy information produced by the facility by at least one smart meter gateway; storing the energy information or information derived therefrom in a chain of data sets; calculating yield tokens on the basis of the energy information and the smart contract; and assigning a part of the yield tokens to a participating person on the basis of the participation information.

Various embodiments include a method for controlling an energy exchange among a plurality of energy systems using a control center, wherein a component of one of the plurality of energy systems is coupled to the control center via an interface module for data exchange. The method includes: transmitting a first data set to the interface module with a prediction profile regarding an energy exchange of the component; transmitting a second data set to the control center using the interface module including the first data set and component-specific data of the component; determining control data using the control center using the prediction profile and the component-specific data and data communicated to the control center by further energy systems to determine the control data; transmitting the determined control data to the interface module; and operating the component based on the control data.