The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for economically optimal control of an electrical system. Some embodiments employ generalized multivariable constrained continuous optimization techniques to determine an optimal control sequence over a future time domain in the presence of any number of costs, savings opportunities (value streams), and constraints. Some embodiments also include control methods that enable infrequent recalculation of the optimal setpoints. Some embodiments may include a battery degradation model that, working in conjunction with the economic optimizer, enables the most economical use of any type of battery. Some embodiments include techniques for load and generation learning and prediction. Some embodiments include consideration of external data, such as weather.

Provided in the present invention are a microgrid control system and a microgrid, the microgrid control system comprising: a grid-connected switch, an energy router, a first controller and a second controller; the first controller controls the grid-connected switch and sends a first control instruction; the second controller receives the first control instruction and responds to the first control instruction for controlling the energy router.

A power distribution network monitoring system includes a plurality of measuring instruments that are installed at predetermined positions on power lines constituting a power distribution network and configured to perform electrical measurement of the power lines; a data collection relay configured to receive data related to measurement results from the plurality of measuring instruments; an imaging unit that is disposed near the data collection relay and configured to capture an image including the data collection relay; an abnormality detector configured to use the image captured by the imaging unit to detect an abnormality in the data collection relay; and a storage unit configured to store image data taken by the imaging unit. The image data consists of a single image previously captured by the imaging unit. The abnormality detector compares the latest image captured by the imaging unit and the image data stored by the storage unit and determines whether or not an appearance of the data collection relay changes. If it is determined that there is no change in the appearance of the data collection relay, the image data in the storage unit is updated with the latest image captured by the imaging unit.

An air monitoring system measures tan amount of pollutant in the air. The system includes a plurality of air quality sensor devices arranged within a selected area. Each of the air quality sensor devices is configured to measure air pollutant levels in the selected area, and includes at least one sensor operatively coupled to a controller, wherein the controller is configured to receive a measured input from the at least one sensor. A wireless communication device is coupled to the controller, and is configured to communicate with a central server device.

A carriers synchronizing method of a hybrid frequency parallel inverter is proposed. A low-frequency ripple simulating step is performed to drive a high-frequency controlling unit to simulate a low-frequency ripple. An equidistant grid sampling step is performed to drive the high-frequency controlling unit to sample a sample ripple to generate a sample group and sample the low-frequency ripple to generate a plurality of low-frequency reference groups. An actual shifting angle searching step is performed to drive the high-frequency controlling unit to compare the sample group with the low-frequency reference groups to search an actual shifting angle from the reference shifting angles. A high-frequency carrier adjusting step is performed to drive a proportional integral controller to calculate the actual shifting angle to generate a sync reference, and then a period counter adjusts a starting point of the high-frequency carrier according to the sync reference.

Disclosed are systems, methods, and devices for configuring the output provided by an inverter to an electric motor based on the position of the electric motor with respect to another electric motor.

A method for operating a converter-based grid unit disposed electrically within an AC voltage section or adjacently to an AC voltage section of an electrical grid and electrically connected to the AC voltage section, includes using a control device to adjust infeed and drawing of active power and/or reactive power into and from the AC voltage section by actuating at least one converter of the converter-based grid unit. A multiplicity of measurement values is transmitted to the control device. The measurement values at least relate to different measurement variables and/or measurement locations within the AC voltage section or the converter-based grid unit. The control device selects a measurement value group from the multiplicity of available measurement values by selecting in accordance with a predefined selection guideline, and the at least one converter is actuated based on measurement values of the selected measurement value group.

Implementations of the disclosed subject matter may provide a method includes determining, at a server, average historical usage of energy by a user based on received energy usage data. The server may determine at least one available energy usage plan from one or more energy providers based on the determined average historical usage of energy and by determining available energy rate structures. The server may determine an optimized energy usage from the one or more energy providers based on the determined at least one available energy usage plan. The method may include controlling, at the server, one or more setting of an energy usage device based on the determined optimized energy usage and a selected energy usage plan from the determined at least one energy usage plan.

The disclosure provides a method and a system for dispatching a multi-region power system. The method includes: obtaining, by each regional system operator, basic operating parameters of the regional power system; establishing, by each regional system operator, a dispatching model of the regional power system based on the basic operating parameters; identifying, by each regional system operator, an aggregation model of the regional power system based on the dispatching model of the regional power system; reporting, by each regional system operator, the aggregation model to the cross-region system operator; establishing, by the cross-region system operator, a reduced dispatching model of the multi-region power system based on the aggregation model from each regional system operator; and solving, by the cross-region system operator, the reduced dispatching model to obtain a dispatching result of each regional power system.

A system and method for restoring power in a closed-loop power distribution network. The network includes at least two power sources, at least one feeder and a plurality of switching devices positioned along the at least one feeder and being in communications with each other. The method performs a radial restoration process for restoring power and then determines that at least one of the sections is not receiving power after the radial restoration process has been performed. The method estimates power flow through each switching device and determines an available power capacity from each switching device. The method then determines if the unpowered sections can be powered by any of their neighbor and non-neighbor devices. The method virtually closes the switching devices to power the unpowered sections and updates the estimation of power flow through each switching device and determination of available power capacity from each switching device.