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Application US20190392534


Published 2019-12-26

Power Management Apparatus, Power Management Method, And Non-transitory Storage Medium

The present invention provides a power management apparatus (10) including an acquisition unit (11) that acquires a power purchase request including a power unit price from a power producer, a computation unit (14) that computes a wheeling charge unit price of power for each of pairs of the power producer and a plurality of power consumer groups each having a plurality of power consumers under the control of the same power distribution substation, and a determination unit (12) that determines whether or not to purchase power from the power producer for each power consumer on the basis of a total unit price of the power unit price and a wheeling charge unit price, and a reference unit price of each power consumer.



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3 Independent Claims

  • 1. A power management apparatus comprising: at least one memory configured to store one or more instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the one, or more instructions to: acquire a power purchase request including a power unit price from a power producer; compute a wheeling charge unit price of power for each pair of the power producer and each of a plurality of power consumer groups each having a plurality of power consumers under the control of the same power distribution substation; and determine whether or not to purchase power from the power producer for each of the power consumers on the basis of a total unit price of the power unit price and the wheeling charge unit price and a reference unit price of each power consumer.

  • 16. A power management method executed by a computer, the method comprising: acquiring a power purchase request including a power unit price from a power producer; computing a wheeling charge unit price of power for each pair of the power producer and each of a plurality of power consumer groups each having a plurality of power consumers under the control of the same power distribution substation; and determining whether or not to purchase power from the power producer for each of the power consumers on the basis of a total unit price of the power unit price and the wheeling charge unit price and a reference unit price of each power consumer.

  • 17. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program causing a computer to: acquire a power purchase request including a power unit price from a power producer; compute a wheeling charge unit price of power for each pair of the power producer and each of a plurality of power consumer groups each having a plurality of power consumers under the control of the same power distribution substation; and determine whether or not to purchase power from the power producer for each of the power consumers on the basis of a total unit price of the power unit price and the wheeling charge unit price and a reference unit price of each power consumer.