70 results about "Reverse power flow" patented technology

An apparatus for controlling the operation of power conditioners (10) for supplying the generated power to an external power system such as a commercial power system, in which power conditioners (10) are interconnected to an external power system, the power conditioners (10) are interconnected through information exchange means, at least one of the power conditioners (10) monitors the reverse power flow, and the power conditioners (10) exchange the monitor information with information of the other power conditioners (10), thereby equalizing the outputs of all the power conditioners (10). A generator (42) has armature windings (60), and an inverter circuit (13) of the power conditioner (10) provided for each of the armature windings (60) is controlled by cable or radio.

An information handling system having an energy saving power converter that comprises a main converter for supplying power to the information handling system when in active operation, and an auxiliary converter for supplying standby power to the information handling system when in a sleep or shutdown mode of operation. The main converter is designed to supply the maximum amount of power required by the information handling system, and the auxiliary converter is designed to supply only enough power to maintain the information handling system in the sleep or shutdown mode of operation. The main converter goes into a standby or shutdown condition when not supplying power to the information handling system. The auxiliary converter is designed to draw a minimum amount of energy, only enough to maintain the information handling system in the standby or shutdown mode of operation. A voltage or current sensing logic is used to determine when the main converter should be active and when it should be in standby. A capacitor in the power converter stores enough energy so that the information handling system does not experience transients when the main converter goes back and forth between the active and standby conditions. Power blocking diodes may be used to prevent reverse power flow between the main converter and the auxiliary converter. A plurality of converters may be used for minimum standby power and maximum power conversion efficiency.

An example method comprises receiving first historical meso-scale numerical weather predictions (NWP) and power flow information for a geographic distribution area, correcting for overfitting of the historical NWP predictions, reducing parameters in the first historical NWP predictions, training first power flow models using the first reduced, corrected historical NWP predictions and the historical power flow information for all or parts of the first geographic distribution area, receiving current NWP predictions for the first geographic distribution area, applying any number of first power flow models to the current NWP predictions to generate any number of power flow predictions, comparing one or more of the any number of power flow predictions to one or more first thresholds to determine significance of reverse power flows, and generating a first report including at least one prediction of the reverse power flow and identifying the first geographic distribution area.

This invention relates in general to a device for isolating, controlling, limiting and supporting the power exported from the renewable energy source to the utility grid. The device comprising: a means for monitoring the direction of flow of power within the renewable energy source; a means for isolating the flow of power from the renewable energy source to the mains power supply; and wherein when a reverse power flow above agreed feed in or at least zero feed in or limited feed in is sensed by the means for monitoring between the renewable energy source to the mains power supply, the monitoring means signals the isolating means to open circuit the system and / or control / limit output of the system.

The present invention, which satisfies FRT requirements and reliably supplies power to a load even when there is a system abnormality, is provided with: a distributed power supply 2 connected to a power line L1 for feeding power from a commercial power system 10 to an important load 30; an opening / closing switch 3 that is on the power line L1 and provided closer to the commercial power system thanthe distributed power supply 2; an impedance element 4 connected in parallel to the opening / closing switch 3; a system abnormality detection unit 5 that detects abnormalities in the commercial powersystem 10; and a switch control unit 6 that opens the opening / closing switch 3 and connects the distributed power supply 2 and the commercial power system 10 via the impedance element 4 when an abnormality in the commercial power system 10 is detected. While the distributed power supply 2 and the commercial power system 10 are connected via the impedance element 4, the distributed power supply 2 continues an operation including reverse power flow. The distributed power supply 2 has a rotary power generation device 23 and an energy storage device 22. The energy storage device 22 has: an energystorage unit 221; a bi-directional power convertor 222 that charges / discharges the energy storage unit 221; and a convertor control unit 223 which controls the bi-directional power convertor 222 and performs an operation simulating the inertia of the rotary power generation device 23.