Decentralized Power Availability Interface for Grid Load Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern power distribution grids face challenges in managing decentralized renewable energy sources, leading to temporary power surpluses or deficits due to lack of transparency in grid conditions, which existing load management methods fail to address effectively at the consumer or small producer level.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for decentralizing power availability information in a power grid, involving a power control center that ascertains and transmits power availability and forecast data to a data reception system, which processes and outputs this information to users, enabling them to adjust their behavior to match grid conditions, using various communication methods like radio signals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If power availability information is centralized at the power control center, then information management is simplified, but information transparency and accessibility for users are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized information system into distributed components: the power control center generates power availability information, which is then transmitted to multiple independent data reception systems at different locations. Each reception system independently processes and displays information for its local area, creating a segmented architecture that maintains management simplicity while improving information accessibility throughout the grid.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces communication interfaces and transmission systems as intermediaries between the power control center and data reception systems. These intermediaries facilitate the flow of power availability information from the central authority to distributed users, enabling both centralized management and decentralized accessibility simultaneously.
2Loss of information
If real-time power availability data is transmitted to all users, then information accessibility is improved, but communication infrastructure complexity and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by deploying data reception systems at specific strategic locations rather than universally. Each reception system serves a local area with customized display capabilities appropriate to that location's needs. This approach improves information accessibility in targeted areas without requiring comprehensive infrastructure deployment across the entire grid.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transmits power availability information selectively to specific data reception systems based on their relevance to local power management needs, rather than broadcasting to all possible endpoints. This partial action approach maintains improved information accessibility for relevant users while reducing unnecessary communication overhead and infrastructure complexity.
3Loss of information
If power availability information is decentralized to multiple reception systems, then information transparency is improved, but system coordination and data consistency become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes feedback mechanisms where data reception systems can report local power conditions and information reception status back to the power control center. This feedback loop enables the central authority to monitor and coordinate the decentralized systems, ensuring data consistency while maintaining the transparency benefits of decentralization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent ensures that all data reception systems receive the same power availability information from the power control center at the same time, creating equipotentiality in information distribution. This simultaneous updates approach maintains data consistency across the decentralized network without requiring complex coordination protocols between individual reception systems.
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AI summary
A method for decentralizing a piece of information pertaining to a power availability situation in a power grid at a particular instant includes ascertaining power availability data in the power grid by a power control center that is associated with the power grid, and generating a piece of power availability information by the power control center at the particular instant. The method also includes transmitting the power availability information from the power control center to at least one data reception system, and processing and/or outputting the power availability information by the data reception system.