ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING FOR A FLEET OF AIRCRAFT

An energy management system and method of operating the energy management, which include estimating an energy demand for flight plans for a fleet of aircraft. The flight plans are received from a flight plan database. The system is configured to determine whether a set of dischargeable energy modules are locatable at a respective location of a subset of the fleet of aircraft based at least in part on a replaceable power source inventory database or the subset of the plurality of flight plans. The system is configured to generate a power source inventory distribution plan allocating a subset of dischargeable energy modules for the subset of the plurality of flight plans for the fleet of aircraft based at least in part on the determination that the set of dischargeable energy modules are locatable at the respective location of the subset of the fleet of aircraft.