US Patent Issued to AES Clean Energy Services on June 23 for "System and method for automated clean energy blackstart for backup auxiliary power, microgrid customer loads, and utility grid" (Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,430, issued on June 23, was assigned to AES Clean Energy Services LLC (Salt Lake City).

"System and method for automated clean energy blackstart for backup auxiliary power, microgrid customer loads, and utility grid" was invented by Alston D Costa (Lakewood, Colo.), Ankit Sharma (Longmont, Colo.), Christopher Boyer (Grand Prairie, Texas), Samuel Ley (Boulder, Colo.) and Felipe Cantero (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for performing blackstart functionality from renewable generation and battery energy storage systems are disclosed. A plant may include a microgrid that includes one or more customer load...