An electrical power socket including: an electrical power outlet; a power input configured to supply power to the power outlet; one relay configured to control delivery of electrical power via the power outlet; a power monitor configured to monitor the operational state of the power outlet and characteristics of power drawn from the power outlet. The electrical power socket further includes a microcontroller being configurable to: capture monitored data; send the captured data via a data network interface to a remote energy monitoring system; receive data from the remote energy monitoring system; and control the one relay to manage delivery of power via a power outlet responsive to a determination that the power outlet is delivering power associated with a wasted energy usage classification.

Systems and methods for managing power distribution from in-home electrical wiring are disclosed. In one embodiment, a power splitter device includes a an electrical input source connection with a first input line and a second input line for two hot phases of alternating current electricity, a primary electrical output and a secondary electrical output, the primary electrical output having a first primary output line and a second primary output line and the secondary electrical output having a first secondary output line and a second secondary output line, a first, second, third, and fourth current sensor, a first relay and a second relay, and a control logic microprocessor configured to receive measurements of current, determine an overcurrent condition based upon measurements of current over a period of time and disconnect power from the secondary electrical output connection based upon a determined overcurrent condition.

Described herein is a method for determining a presence of anomalous conditions in a switching apparatus installed in an electric line of an electric power distribution grid. The method includes a sequence of steps for adjusting a lumped-parameter model describing, for each electric phase, the behavior of the switching apparatus during the opening maneuvers of the switching apparatus. Simulation values provided by the lumped-parameter model are used for calculating estimation values indicative of the amounts of arc energy released by the breaking components of the switching apparatus during the opening maneuvers of the switching apparatus.

An innovative electrical panel configured to switch between solar/battery mode and power grid mode connected to a main input power source and a solar input power source, a battery input power source or any combination thereof wherein one or more standard circuit breakers or one or more custom wireless circuit breakers are configured to utilize one or more fast-switching components that are configured to alternate one or more circuit breakers between the main input power source and the solar, a battery or any combination thereof, input power source.

There are systems and methods for energy management of a power distribution panel. Circuit breakers and an energy management gateway are located in the power distribution panel, and an internal panel communication network is established among the circuit breakers and the gateway. The gateway exchanges data of the circuit breakers and sends commands to control the circuit breakers. The gateway provides the data to an external device that is part of a network external to the internal panel communication network for controlling one or more appliances.

Examples described herein provide a system for controlling power flow in an energy distribution network. The system includes a plurality of inverters, each having an inverter controller associated therewith. The system further includes a utility controller associated with a utility and configured to communicate with at least a subset of the plurality of inverters. The system further includes a customer controller associated with a customer of the utility and configured to communicate with at least the utility controller. The system further includes a direct current (DC) breaker associated with a battery of the customer. The system further includes a DC meter of the customer, the DC meter and the DC breaker each configured to communicate with the utility controller and the customer controller. The utility controller is configured to determine a current operational scenario of the energy distribution network and to control power routing within the energy distribution network.

A modular remote current monitoring device plugs into a single-pole mounting location on a power distribution panel of a direct-current (DC) power system, e.g., where a circuit breaker, fuse, shorting device, or other target device would ordinarily be installed. The target device plugs into the modular device (e.g., via bullet-type connectors) such that an individual (e.g., single-pole) current is conveyed between the power distribution panel and the target device via the modular device. The modular device senses an amperage of the individual current and reports the sensed amperage to a remotely located end user or controller. The end user or controller similarly may interrupt (disable) or reset (enable) the current from a remote location via the modular device.

A voltage controller device, a method for determining the optimized operating point and a voltage control system for branched electrical energy distribution networks including voltage meters installed at the points where it is of interest to control the voltage, internally having communication in the LPWA standard. An LPWA modem collects this information and passes it on to the Branched Network Voltage Controller, which internally has the specialist algorithm for the calculation of the Tap that must be selected in the Voltage Regulator so that the voltages at all points of interest are as much as possible within the specified limits. For this, it sends a command to the Voltage Regulator controller in the form of a voltage at the input of the TP, being compatible with the legacy in the field, or in the form of a command in an application protocol for compatible Voltage Regulator controllers.

The first control device is connected to a power supply. The second control device is connected to the first control device via a power supply line and operates with power supplied from the first control device via the power supply line. The switch switches whether or not to make the power supply and the power supply line conductive to each other. The power supply unit is configured to supply power to a power supply line. When the switch is in the conduction state, power is supplied from the power supply to the power line at a first voltage. When the switch is in a non-conductive state, power is supplied from the power supply unit to the power supply line at a second voltage. The first controller switches a switch to transmit the pulse signal to the second control device via a power supply line.

An electrical power socket including: an electrical power outlet; a power input configured to supply power to the power outlet; one relay configured to control delivery of electrical power via the power outlet; a power monitor configured to monitor the operational state of the-power outlet and characteristics of power drawn from the power outlet; and a microcontroller being configurable to: capture monitored data; send the captured data via a data network interface to a remote energy monitoring system; receive data from the remote energy monitoring system; and control the one relay to manage delivery of power via a power outlet responsive to a determination the power outlet is delivering power associated with a wasted energy usage classification. The determination the power outlet is delivering power associated with a wasted energy usage classification.