Hitachi, Ltd.

Nao Saito

Masahiro Yatsu

Kenta Kirihara

Daichi Kato

Setsuo Arita

Eisuke Kuroda

Taichiro Kawahara

Yasuhiro Nakatsuka

Toshiaki Suzuki

Satoru Ito

Toshiyuki Miyake

Yoshikazu Ishii

Shota Omi

Yuji Ichinose

Kouichi Hara

Yusuke Shomura

Taichirou Kawahara

Daisuke Sinma

Efrain Eduardo Tamayo Ruiz

Gabriele Meldaikyte

Kazunori Ayabe

Yukio Sagawa

Tanis Rolandi

Efrain Tamayo

The present disclosure relates to, in particular, an apparatus enabling interactions between actors of energy-related infrastructure, which comprises a platform device that includes: one or more input/output units, which are configured to transmit data from the platform to actorstoand/or to receive data from actorsto; a data gathering module and a first actor support module.

Apparatus enabling interactions between actors of an energy-related infrastructure

A power management system, which manages a transaction of power generated based on renewable energy, includes: a power supply system capable of supplying power generated based on the renewable energy to a power demand system; and a power demand-supply management apparatus that manages demand and supply of the power. The power demand-supply management apparatus requests the power supply system to supply the power to the power demand system in a power generation time zone of the power, and issues, to the power demand system, a certificate that an amount of supplied power has been consumed in accordance with generation of the power.

Power management system, power demand-supply management apparatus, and power demand-supply management method

To calculate the prediction of the power generation amount with high accuracy even when the amount of the track record data of the Generator power generation amount is insufficient or the amount of the weather track record data similar to the weather prediction result is small. A power generation amount prediction apparatus for predicting a power generation amount at a power plant that performs power generation by use of renewable energy, including: a model generation unit that generates a mathematical model of the power generation amount of the power plant in regard to each model generation time based on a weather track record and an output power track record in regard to the power plant; a similar track record data extraction unit that obtains a weather track record similar to weather prediction data and a corresponding output power track record as similar track record data; a model accuracy calculation unit that calculates accuracy of each of a plurality of mathematical models of the model generation unit in a weather condition similar to the weather prediction data; a model selection unit that selects a mathematical model to be used for the prediction by using the accuracy of each of the models; and a model output power prediction unit that predicts the power generation amount of the power plant by using the selected mathematical model.

Power generation amount prediction apparatus, power generation amount prediction method, system stabilization apparatus, and system stabilization method

An operation support device is provided with: a similarity determination unit for determining the similarity between actual measured data and simulated data, said actual measured data being measured in an operation target after performing control on the operation target on the basis of, among a plurality of control candidates managed using a control candidate table, a control candidate corresponding to an event having occurred in the operation target, said simulated data being obtained by a simulation assuming the system state of the operation target after performing control on the operation target on the basis of system data indicating the state of the operation target before performing the control on the operation target; and a control candidate table update unit for updating the control candidate table in accordance with the determination result of the similarity determination unit.

Operation support device and operation support method

A manipulation candidate classification unit provided in this operation assistance device classifies manipulation logs associated with a plurality of events stored in a past case database, as manipulation candidates, on the basis of measured value feature quantity tolerance ranges, and groups the classified manipulation candidates and the measured value feature quantity tolerance ranges together to create manipulation candidate groups. A manipulation candidate search unit searches a manipulation candidate database for a manipulation candidate group associated with a feature quantity that is associated with a past event and that is close to a feature quantity associated with a new event, and outputs the found manipulation candidate group to an output unit.

Operation assistance device and operation assistance method

A system operation decision-making assistance device includes: a state mode clustering unit that calculates, on the basis of measurement data DBof a power system and a clustering parameter DB, which state mode, from among prescribed state modes, applies to a power system; a state mode collation unit that collates state transition data DBindicating transitions between state modes and the calculated state mode to calculate state transition probability data, which is the probability of transitioning from the calculated state mode to each state mode defined in the state transition data; and an accident shift pattern calculation unit that calculates important accident cases on the basis of a system model DB, an importance parameter DBincluding the importance of a power system accident, the measurement data, and the calculated state transition probability data.

System operation decision-making assistance device and method

The voltage and reactive power monitoring/control method includes: measurement data for the power system and data for the system equipment of the power system are used to calculate the system status for the power system at the time of measurement; data for a status estimation calculation result and predicted data for the power generation and load of the power system are used to predictively calculate a system status at a future time from the time of the power system measurement; a fluctuation component is obtained for the predicted value of the data obtained from the power system; the reactive power required to suppress the fluctuation component is obtained, as a required reactive power amount; a reactive power distribution subject is selected from a plurality of pieces of control subject equipment; an output distribution calculation is performed for the required reactive power amount for the selected control subject equipment.

Voltage and reactive power monitoring/control device and method for calculating required reactive power amount for suppressing a fluctuation component and selecting an appropriate equipment

With conventional technology, since calculation of system stability is performed regarding all imaginable failure cases for the combinations of all objects to be controlled to determine an object to be controlled, there has been a problem of not being able to determine an object to be controlled in all the imaginable failure cases within a calculation period due to longer calculation time. In order to solve the problem, this apparatus for stabilizing a power system is provided with: an imaginable failure scenario generation unit; a power-flow state generation unit that generates a power-flow state of the power system; a system stability calculation unit that calculates system stability of the power system; a to-be-controlled candidate calculation unit that calculates a candidate object to be controlled for stabilization of the power system; a control table calculation unit that calculates a control table; a system stability calculation requiring/non-requiring state range extraction unit that extracts a state range where stability calculation of the power system is required and a state range where stability calculation is not required; and a system stability calculation requiring/non-requiring determination unit that determines whether or not stability calculation of the power system is required.

Apparatus and method for stabilizing power system

The setting range of the voltage and the reactive power of a power system is maintained during variations of voltage and power flow due to the output variation of renewable energy of a large number of power supplies which fluctuate due to weather. A voltage/reactive power operation assisting device is provided with a first database for storing the data to be evaluated, target value data, individual control device control method data, and individual control device data of an individual control device for adjusting the voltage/reactive power of a power system. A second database stores the device operation data of the individual control device; and the operation of the individual control device is predicted from the data stored in the first database to obtain individual control device operation prediction data. A display unit displays the individual control device operation prediction data and the device operation data in a contrastive manner.

Voltage/reactive power operation assisting device and assisting method, and voltage/reactive power operation monitoring control device and monitoring control method

A communication system in trains comprises a control data communication deviceand an image data communication deviceinstalled in each of the cars. The control data communication devicetransmits train operation information, train location information, control instructions of train-mounted apparatuses, and the like. The image data communication devicetransmits image information such as moving images and still images, audio information such as in-train announcement, textual information for caption display, and operation log information of apparatuses, which form the contents, to a display unitinstalled in each of the cars and to apparatusessuch as a telephone. The display unitswitches the display on the screen in accordance with train control information transmitted from the control data communication devicethrough the image data communication device

Communication system in trains

Using a network in which one master station modemand multiple slave station modemare physically connected by rudder connection or bus connection with a telecommunication line, the measurement result of the S/N ratio between the master station and slave stations is once collected in the master station at the initialization stage, pairs of the modulation method, by which all modems can demodulate at high probability, and transmission voltage are calculated based on this data, and the calculation is transmitted to all slave stations; and at a normal transmission stage, information regarding the coordination and control of the network is transmitted in accordance with this setting. Thus, one-to-multi communication is realized, guaranteeing an access right.

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Nao Saito