HIERARCHICAL POWER SMOOTHING

Power is provided to one or more devices in a system that includes a hierarchical power smoothing environment having multiple tiers. In response to a peak in power usage by the one or more devices, power is provided from a first power smoothing component in a first tier of the multiple tiers. Additi...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors BELADY, CHRISTIAN, L, PETERSON, ERIC, C, WIRTZ, FRANK, J, HARRIS, SHAUN, L
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 06.04.2016
Subjects
CALCULATING
CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTINGELECTRIC POWER
COMPUTING
CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
GENERATION
PHYSICS
SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Power is provided to one or more devices in a system that includes a hierarchical power smoothing environment having multiple tiers. In response to a peak in power usage by the one or more devices, power is provided from a first power smoothing component in a first tier of the multiple tiers. Additionally, power is provided to the one or more devices from power smoothing components in each of other tiers of the multiple tiers if the power smoothing component in a next lower tier of the multiple tiers is unable to provide sufficient power for the peak in power usage. If the power smoothing components in the multiple tiers are unable to provide sufficient power for the peak in power usage, then performance of at least one of the one or more devices is reduced in response to the peak in power usage.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20110798694