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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190298 | Apparatus and method for controlling voltage and frequency in network on chip An apparatus and a method for controlling a power in a Network on Chip (NoC) are provided. The apparatus includes a storage for storing status information of links interconnecting processing elements (PEs), link configuration information for establishing paths betwe... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8165723 | Real-time system for verification and monitoring of protective device settings within an electrical power distribution network and automatic correction of deviances found A system for real-time verification of protective device system configuration settings on a monitored system, is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a virtual system model database, a protective device system verification engine. The data ac... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8131401 | Real-time stability indexing for intelligent energy monitoring and management of electrical power network system A system and method for intelligent monitoring and management of an electrical system is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a power analytics server and a client terminal. The data acquisition component acquires real-time data output from t... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121737 | Systems and methods for presenting saving opportunities for electronic edvices A method for presenting saving opportunities for electronic devices is disclosed. Experience based data learned from past power behavior of one or more devices is received. One or more power saving opportunities are generated based on the experience based data. Esti... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108079 | Operating method for a wind park The present invention concerns a method of operating a wind park having a plurality of wind power installations. The invention further concerns a wind power installation having an electrically excited generator and a wind park having a central apparatus for controll... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108080 | Monitoring and control apparatus and method and wind power plant equipped with the same It is an object to reduce influence on a utility grid by reducing a rapid change in active power, and to extend the life of a wind power plant while controlling active power output in response to a request from the utility grid. A monitoring and control apparatus ap... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103386 | Power system A data acquiring unit (122) acquires external factor data such as day of the week, date and time, or weather together with electric power data in a house, and stores the data in a storage unit (114). A classification/learning unit (124) reads th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103387 | Adaptive power system Aspects of the disclosure provides an adaptive power system to relieve manual efforts for performing appropriate power procedures. The adaptive power system can include a power source unit including a plurality of power sources and a power bus. The power source unit... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099197 | Method and system for distributed energy generator message aggregation A method and system for aggregating messages. The method comprises obtaining, at a controller, a first plurality of messages related to operation of a distributed energy generator; generating, at the controller, a second plurality of messages from the first pluralit... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095243 | Power monitoring and control system and method A system includes first and second controllers coupled together with a communication channel. The first controller provides a first signal to the second controller and the second controller provides a second signal to the first controller in response. The second sig... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090479 | Electricity market-oriented DC-segmentation design and optimal scheduling for electrical power transmission A method of segmenting a power distribution network which comprises a plurality of AC power generating stations synchronously interconnected by AC power transmission paths is disclosed. The stations operate within associated market sectors and are subject to associa... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086355 | Method, a system, a computer-readable medium, and a power controlling apparatus for applying and distributing power Embodiments of the invention relate generally to power management and the like, and more particularly, to an apparatus, a system, a method, and a computer-readable medium for providing power controlling functionality to generate configurable power signals and to del... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073573 | Electrical power distribution control methods, electrical energy demand monitoring methods, and power management devices Electrical power distribution control methods, electrical energy demand monitoring methods, and power management devices are described. In one aspect, an electrical power distribution control method includes providing electrical energy from an electrical power distr... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065040 | On-site power plant control including adaptive response to transient load requirements An on-site power plant (24) has a controller (40) that selectively controls operation of prime movers (26, 28, 30). In one example, the controller (40) changes the number of operating prime movers responsive to a transient in a load (2... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065041 | Concentrating control method of generating sets for grid energy saving and reduction of SOdischarge The present invention provides a control method for generating data sets for reduction of sulfur dioxide discharge in energy grid. The electric price parameters, energy-consumption parameters, and SO2 discharge parameters of the generating sets are collec... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055390 | Controller for a blade adjustment angle of at least one rotor blade of a wind power plant Controller for a blade adjustment angle for at least one rotor blade of a wind power plant, in which a first controller branch is switched for the determination of the blade adjustment angle depending on the operating states of the wind power plant, wherein at least... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050803 | Power feeding system, electrical apparatus, power feeding apparatus, and computer readable storage medium A power feeding system includes a power feeding apparatus and a power line communication unit. The power feeding apparatus feeds power from a power line to an external apparatus. The power line communication unit communicates via the power line, which is a communica... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046108 | System and method for converting ocean wave energy into electricity A system and method for harnessing power associated with ocean waves and converting that power into electricity. The apparatus is a buoy that houses a vertically oriented central shaft, a pendulum, a generator mechanism, and other components that synergistically ope... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041464 | Network radiality in reconfiguration of a radial power distribution system using a matrix-structured knowledge-based system A knowledge-based system is defined that ensures network radiatity during reconfiguration of a power distribution system. Network radiality heuristics idenufy a pair of switching operations that will preserve radiality. A line section table specifies the line sectio... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8034497 | Control device of vehicular fuel cell system and related method A control device for a vehicular fuel cell system is provided with a warm-up output control section operative, when a fuel cell system is started up under a low temperature condition and in case that a fuel cell stack of the fuel cell system is warmed up, causing th... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032259 | Bi-directional power control An electrical circuit for bi-directional power control between two devices, including a first battery-operated device, including a first battery for providing a source of power to the first battery-operated device, a first power management subsystem connected to the... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024076 | Voltage collapse diagnostic and ATC system A plurality of buses of an electrical power system are grouped into agents, family lines of agents and families of agents based on the reactive reserves depleted when the buses are loaded. Contingencies are applied and the reactive reserves are monitored to determin... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019483 | System and method for managing the distributed generation of power by a plurality of electric vehicles A system and method for managing the distributed generation of power from a plurality of vehicles is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes determining location information for the plurality of vehicles, determining that a demand for power in a first porti... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8000840 | Method of start up at least a part of a wind power plant, wind power plant and use of the wind power plant A wind power plant and a method of start up at least a part of a wind power plant connected to an external grid substantially without any energy delivered from the external grid for the start up is provided. The wind power plant having a plurality of wind turbines a... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991511 | Method and system for selecting between centralized and distributed maximum power point tracking in an energy generating system A method for selecting between centralized and distributed maximum power point tracking in an energy generating system is provided. The energy generating system includes a plurality of energy generating devices, each of which is coupled to a corresponding local conv... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983797 | Methods and apparatus for providing and distributing standby power Aspects of the invention are directed to power distribution systems and methods for distributing power from a primary power source and a backup power source to a load. In one particular aspect, a power distribution system includes a first input to receive input powe... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7966100 | Performance metrics in renewals energy systems Systems and methods are provided for collecting (200), aggregating (201), and analyzing data (202, 203) associated with the installation and deployment of systems. Energy systems, specifically renewable energy generating systems, are used as exa... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957844 | Device and a method for power balancing A method for stabilization of the power balance in an electric power system including a number of nodes. An instantaneous value of the mains frequency of the electric power system is sensed. In dependence on the frequency deviation of the instantaneous value from a ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957845 | Apparatus and method for predictive control of a power generation system A method for controlling a power system control area according to a first and a second control performance standard, wherein operation of the control area determines area control parameter values. The method comprises (a) determining a first compliance target for th... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7920942 | Control of combined storage and generation in distributed energy resources A microsource is provided, which includes an energy storage device, a power generation device, and a controller. The energy storage device is operably coupled for power transfer to a load through a first power bus. The power generation device is operably coupled for... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917251 | Metering system and method of operation A metering system for measuring the electrical power used to charge a vehicle is provided. The metering system includes an electrical meter operably coupled to a conductor connected to the vehicle and an electrical outlet. A controller receives signals from the mete... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912589 | Initializing an estimation of dynamic model parameters The present disclosure relates to monitoring of electromechanical oscillations in electric power systems, and their identification by an adaptive algorithm based on a repeatedly measured and evaluated signal. In order for an estimation of parameters of a model of th... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908035 | System and method for wind formulary A controller for use in monitoring at least one operating wind turbine is communicatively coupled to the at least one operating wind turbine, to a server sub-system, and to a user interface device. The controller is configured to receive operational data from the at... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7899581 | Modular irrigation controller with separate field valve line wiring terminals A modular irrigation controller includes a processor capable of executing a stored watering program and controlling a plurality of removable station modules in accordance with the watering program. Each station module includes a station module circuit for opening an... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899582 | Method for calculating availability for line power systems A method for calculating availability in line power systems composed of power circuit modules determines power circuit parameters associated with the power circuits, accepting input from central databases. The method calculates a required number of power circuits to... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7877169 | System and method for synchronizing an auxiliary electrical generator to an electrical system There is provided herein methods and apparatus for apparatus for controlling the interconnection of an auxiliary AC generator with an electrical system, such as an electrical distribution system, e.g., a utility grid. A measuring circuit measures the frequency of an... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873441 | System for execution of a load operating plan for load control A system uses an intelligent load controller for managing use of a consumable resource at an associated load. The controller has a resource measuring component for measuring the rate of use of the resource by the associated load, including measuring at least one of ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7860615 | Method and apparatus for control of an electric power distribution system in response to circuit abnormalities A methodology and related system apparatus is provided to most efficiently and flexibly respond to abnormalities to reconfigure and restore service to end customers in commodity distribution systems to enhance circuit reconfiguration in an electrical power distribut... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7840312 | Power control of a wind farm and method thereof A wind farm includes a plurality of wind energy installations which generate electrical energy to be output to a power supply system and a wind farm master for controlling the wind energy installations. Each wind energy installation includes a generator which is dri... | 11/23/2010 |
| RE41821 | Control of multiple power plants at a site to provide a distributed resource in a utility grid A site management system (11) is provided for a power system (8) at site in a utility distribution grid (10). The power system (8) includes multiple fuel cell power plants, e.g., fuel cells, (18) and one or more loads (14),... | 10/12/2010 |
