Power Transfer Between MV Feeders in a Power Distribution Network

    公开(公告)号:US20230132007A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-27

    申请号:US17758528

    申请日:2020-01-10

    申请人: ABB Schweiz AG

    IPC分类号: H02J3/06

    摘要: A method for transfer of power between medium voltage, MV, feeders via a MV direct current, MVDC, link in a power distribution network is presented. The method is performed in a controller in the power distribution network and includes setting an iteration step value for each of a set of power reference quantities of the MVDC link, and setting an initial value of each of the set of power reference quantities, iteratively changing values of each of the set of power reference quantities, and selecting one changed value of the set of power reference quantities by: changing a present value of each of the set of power reference quantities, one at a time, with the set iteration step value, respectively, into a new value, and measuring a total active power at a substation of the power distribution network for each of the new value, one at a time, and selecting the new value of the one of the set of power reference quantities that provides the lowest measured total active power at the substation, wherein a next iteration is performed with the selected new value as present value for the one of the set of power reference quantities and with the present value for the other of the set of power reference quantities. A controller for transfer of power between MV feeders via a MVDC link in a power distribution network is also presented.

    Interactive dynamic interface for capacitor control

    公开(公告)号:US11573545B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-07

    申请号:US16777518

    申请日:2020-01-30

    摘要: A system, method and apparatus for an interactive dynamic interface for wireless distributed capacitor control that comprises a touchscreen display that eliminates the conventional dials and switches that are part of a conventional control, and with these efficiencies can locally, remotely or autonomously implement “personality” settings for the capacitor control that speeds and simplifies custom configurations and recovery in relation to user, electrical and environmental input that meets certain operating criteria, including after a shut-down event, thereby improving the of the capacitor control system to function more appropriately, effectively, and efficiently under a greater range of parameters.

    Guided Photography and Video On A Mobile Device

    公开(公告)号:US20220405830A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-22

    申请号:US17869652

    申请日:2022-07-20

    申请人: eBay Inc.

    发明人: Dane Glasgow

    摘要: In an example embodiment, an item listing process is run in an item listing application. Upon reaching a specified point in the item listing process, a camera application on the user device is triggered (or the camera directly accessed by the item listing application) to enable a user to capture images using the camera, wherein the triggering includes providing an overlay informing the user as to an angle at which to capture images from the camera.

    Electrical grid control and optimization

    公开(公告)号:US11355937B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US17028445

    申请日:2020-09-22

    申请人: EnergyHub, Inc.

    IPC分类号: H02J3/46 H02J3/06 G06Q50/06

    摘要: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining controls to be applied to a population of devices. In one aspect, a method comprises: determining a plurality of simulated load curves, wherein each simulated load curve simulates load generated by a respective device from a population of devices based on application of a respective control from a set of controls; adjusting values of a plurality of weights during a plurality of optimization iterations using an optimization technique to optimize a loss function, wherein each weight corresponds to a respective simulated load curve, wherein the loss function measures: a sparsity of the values of the plurality of weights, and an error between: (i) an aggregate load curve that is defined by combining the simulated load curves in accordance with the values of the plurality of weights, and (ii) a target load curve.

    METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CLUSTERING OF ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS, IN PARTICULAR FOR RENDERING ANCILLARY SERVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20220173596A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-02

    申请号:US17538111

    申请日:2021-11-30

    IPC分类号: H02J3/38 H02J3/06

    摘要: A method for controlling an electrical distribution grid, comprising the following steps: determining at least one variable which describes a state of the electrical distribution grid; combining a plurality of electrical installations, in particular a plurality of regenerative generating units, of the electrical distribution grid to form a virtual power plant, in particular taking into consideration the variable; establishing a control area within the electrical distribution grid for the virtual power plant; establishing a control unit of an electrical installation of the virtual power plant as main control unit; controlling the control area using the main control unit of the virtual power plant.

    Method and system for online decision making of generator start-up

    公开(公告)号:US11159018B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-26

    申请号:US16348190

    申请日:2018-09-29

    发明人: Yutian Liu Runjia Sun

    IPC分类号: H02J3/06 G05B19/042 G06N3/08

    摘要: A method and system for online decision making of generator start-up, determining the lines to be restored step by step based on the real-time power system data to guide the initial stage. The black-start unit is determined, and the units waiting to be restored are selected from all units. The training set including labeled samples to establish a value network. During generator start-up, the blackout area is judged, the state of power system is identified, the availability of equipment is judged, and the characteristics of generators are collected. The total generation capability is used as search objective for Monte Carlo tree search. Based on the value network, Monte Carlo is applied to search the next line to be restored during generator start-up. Parallel computation adopted to check the constraints for the restoration of alternative lines. The results of Monte Carlo are summarized to determine the line to be restored next.

    SYSTEM OF CRITICAL DATACENTERS AND BEHIND-THE-METER FLEXIBLE DATACENTERS

    公开(公告)号:US20210296893A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-23

    申请号:US17340664

    申请日:2021-06-07

    申请人: LANCIUM LLC

    摘要: Systems include one or more critical datacenter connected to behind-the-meter flexible datacenters. The critical datacenter is powered by grid power and not necessarily collocated with the flexboxes, which are powered “behind the meter.” When a computational operation to be performed at the critical datacenter is identified and determined that it can be performed at a lower cost at a flexible datacenter, the computational operation is instead routed to the flexible datacenters for performance. The critical datacenter and flexible datacenters preferably shared a dedicated communication pathway to enable high-bandwidth, low-latency, secure data transmissions.