Systems for provisioning energy generation and storage systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10277031-B2
Application number	US-201514633098-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2015
Priority date	Jul 19, 2012
Publication date	Apr 30, 2019
Grant date	Apr 30, 2019

Abstract

Techniques for provisioning energy generation and/or storage systems. In one embodiment, a method is provided that can comprise automatically determining, by a site gateway, information pertaining to one or more components of an energy storage system, where the site gateway and the one or more components are located at a customer site. The method can further comprise configuring, by the site gateway, the energy storage system based on the automatically determined information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
an energy storage system including one or more components located at a customer site; and
a site gateway including a processor, the site gateway communicatively coupled to the energy storage system,
wherein the processor is configured to automatically:
receive, from a remote server, a component database for the energy storage system;
receive, from each component in the one or more components, a component identifier that uniquely identifies the component;
retrieve, from the component database, information for the one or more components by querying the component database using the component identifiers; and
program each of the one or more uniquely identified components for operation at the customer site without manual on-site programming.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the processor is further configured to program itself to interoperate with the one or more components.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the component identifier received from each component of the one or more components is a model number, a serial number, or a media access control (MAC) address of the component.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the component identifier is received from each component of the one or more components via a wireless link.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the energy storage system comprises an energy generation component to generate energy via photovoltaic (PV) modules and an energy storage component to store energy in a battery device.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the information pertaining to the one or more components includes specifications of the battery device.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the specifications of the battery device include chemistry, capacity, peak power output, charge limits, or nominal voltage.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the information pertaining to the one or more components includes a number of PV modules and inverters and specifications of each PV module and inverter.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the information pertaining to the one or more components includes a number of battery inverter/chargers and specifications of each battery inverter/charger.

Assignees

• Solarcity Corp

Inventors

• Carlson Eric Daniel
• Varadarajan Karthikeyan

Classifications

• B60L53/68

  Off-site monitoring or control, e.g. remote control · CPC title

• H02J2105/42

  Home appliances · CPC title

• H02J13/14

  the power network being locally controlled, e.g. home energy management systems [HEMS] · CPC title

• H02J13/13

  characterised by the transmission of data to equipment in the power network · CPC title

• Y04S10/14

  Energy storage units · CPC title