AUTOMATIC ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION REDUCTION, ESPECIALLY IN COMMERCIAL AND MULTI-BUILDING SYSTEMS

摘要

Automatic energy management is provided, in even the most complex multi-building system. The necessity of a human operator for managing energy in acomplex, multi-building system is reduced and even eliminated. Computer-basedmonitoring and computer-based recognition of adverse energy events,(such asthe approach of a new energy peak) is highly advantageous in energymanagement. Immediate automatic querying of energy users within a system ofbuildings for energy curtailment possibilities is provided. Such immediate,automatic querying may be answered by the energy users through artificialintelligence and/or neural network technology provided to or programmed intothe energy users, and the queried energy users may respond in real-time. Thosereal-time computerized responses with energy curtailment possibilities may bereceived automatically by a data processing facility, and processed in real-time. Advantageously, the responses from queried energy users with energycurtailment possibilities may be automatically processed into a round-robincurtailment rotation which may be implemented by a computer-based controlsystem. Thus, impact on occupants is minimized, and energy use and energy costmay be beneficially reduced in an intelligent, real~time manner. The inventionalso provides for early-recognition of impending adverse energy events,optimal response to a particular energy situation, real-time analysis ofenergy-related data, etc.