Community energy management system

Systems and methods for distributed control and energy management of one or more communities of energy-consuming units may include aggregation of consumption data from units, and determining per-unit electricity consumption based thereon, including consumption of backup power provided by a community during periods of time of poor quality (brownouts) or blackouts of a utility. One system calculates and assesses to respective units per-unit costs for such backup power. A system may also issue a command or alert to units to carry out one or both of community electricity usage objectives and electricity quotas required by the utility, which may be determined through execution of rules. Smart device management systems at units may execute the command or unit owners may react to alerts to reduce or cut electricity consumption by certain appliances. In a system of hierarchical monitoring of the provision of electricity by the utility and unit-level consumption of electricity, a separate provider system may control a group of one or more community energy management systems in at least the above-listed ways.