US Patent Issued to Enphase Energy on April 29 for "Method and apparatus for controlling power grid member behavior" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,988, issued on April 29, was assigned to Enphase Energy Inc. (Petaluma, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for controlling power grid member behavior" was invented by Martin Fornage (Petaluma, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling a behavior of at least one member of a local power grid. In one embodiment, the system comprises a monitoring system, comprising at least one processor, for obtaining a measure of grid stress and deriving at least one of financial incentives and financial disincentives, based on the measure of grid stress, to cause at least one member of the local grid to change behavior."

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