SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND REAL-TIME CONTROL OF MULTIPLE ENERGY ASSETS

Disclosed is system for continuous optimization and real-time control of multiple energy assets, such as electricity, heat, transport, utilized by plurality of nodes in distributed energy network having different energy sources. The system includes a plurality of control devices and software module. Each control device is associated with an energy asset, and configured to determine and communicate status information of associated energy asset and control settings and set triggers for associated energy asset for regulating utilization thereof by corresponding node. Software module is configured to receive status information from plurality of control devices; construct network topology for distributed energy network based on received status information; collect data for each energy asset; formulate constrained optimization problem based on constructed network topology and collected data; and compute solution to formulated constrained optimization problem to determine one or more of settings, control commands and triggers for associated energy asset, for plurality of control devices, to provide integration and optimization of multiple energy sources.--