TIERED GREENING FOR LARGE BUSINESS OPERATIONS WITH HEAVY POWER RELIANCE

• Main Authors: Greene, Daniel H, Crawford, Lara S
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 14.06.2018
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for tiered greening of power consumption on shared equipment. The system improves significantly over previous systems by allowing large organizations to utilize renewable ("green") power progressively, fulfilling customer stipulations of power quantity, quality, and delivery, and apportioning the cost fairly among customers. During operation, the system obtains a plurality of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) detailing power consumption by a plurality of jobs from a plurality of customers, wherein the SLAs specify a level of green power generated from renewable sources, and green power quality and delivery requirements. The system then apportions the power consumption to a respective job, in satisfaction of the job's SLA, yielding a net increase in a total level of green power of the plurality of jobs. The system may then control the shared equipment to execute the job according to the apportioned power consumption.