Grid Energy Storage Dispatch Using Contracted Power Aggregation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The stored electric energy from individual users is insufficient to maintain power supply stability or reliability in large-scale power grids, necessitating a method to aggregate and dispatch multiple stored electric energies effectively.

Innovation Solution

An electric energy dispatching system and method that includes an electric energy management device controlling multiple energy storage devices to provide stored electric energy to the grid according to a contracted power supply during a specified contract period, stabilizing the power supply.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple energy storage devices are aggregated and controlled by a management device, then the total stored electric energy provided to the grid is sufficient to maintain power supply stability and reliability, but the system complexity increases due to the need for coordination and control mechanisms

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepower supply stabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent aggregates multiple energy storage devices into a unified system managed by a central management device. This merging approach combines the stored electric energy from individual devices (each providing only several kilowatts) to achieve a collective capacity sufficient for large-scale power grid stabilization, directly resolving the contradiction between individual device limitations and system-level reliability requirements

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The management device performs multiple functions including receiving contracted power supply information, coordinating dispatch operations across multiple energy storage devices, and stabilizing power supply to the grid. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems into a single universal controller, addressing the complexity concern while achieving reliability goals

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Device complexity

If individual user stored electric energy is used, then the system is simple to implement, but the power supply stability and reliability of large-scale power grids cannot be maintained

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem simplicityVSAvoidpower supply reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent explicitly addresses the insufficiency of individual user stored electric energy by merging multiple energy storage devices into a coordinated system. The aggregation transforms individually inadequate capacity (several kilowatts per user) into collectively sufficient capacity for grid-scale reliability, directly resolving the contradiction between system simplicity and power supply reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The management device serves as an intermediary that coordinates between individual energy storage devices and the power grid. It receives contracted power supply information and translates it into coordinated dispatch commands, enabling individual simple devices to collectively achieve complex reliability goals without requiring each device to be independently complex

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20260051733A1Electric energy dispatching method and electric energy dispatching system
Publication Date: 2026.02.19 APH EPOWER CO LTD
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AI summary

An electric energy dispatching method and an electric energy dispatching system are provided. The electric energy dispatching method includes: receiving a contracted power supply and a contract period of an electric energy dispatch contract in an area; controlling energy storage devices in the area to provide a plurality of stored electric energy to a grid according to the contracted power supply during the contract period; and stabilizing power supply of the grid using the plurality of stored electric energy.