Abstract: 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. A system may calculate and assess 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.

Abstract: A method for associating a financial transaction with an electronic advertisement including obtaining unique electronic tokens for each potential financial transaction resulting from an electronic advertisement of an advertiser to consumers; storing the unique electronic tokens as stored tokens associated with the electronic advertisement; transmitting the unique electronic tokens as distributed tokens to the advertiser; receiving at least one of the distributed tokens that has been passed from the advertiser to a consumer in relation to a financial transaction based on the electronic advertisement; and associating each financial transaction identified by the received distributed token with the electronic advertisement identified by the stored tokens, if the received distributed token matches with the stored token.