ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,771, issued on May 26, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).
"Electric grid load forecasts with distributed photovoltaic generation" was invented by Frank Anthony Monforte (Encinitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the context of an electrical utility system, changing cloud conditions may cause a customer having solar panels to greatly increase or decrease electrical demand in a difficult-to-predict manner. Accordingly, a spinning reserve maintained by an electric utility company must be larger, and is therefore more expensive. In an example, the spinning reserve may be managed by: calculating a stable sequence o...