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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2014
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Endo, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotoshi Yano, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Yabe, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Minezawa, Tokyo, JP;
Ichiro Maruyama, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Ogawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kaori Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An energy management system includes an energy management controller and a power conditioning system that charges and discharges a storage battery installed in an electric vehicle. The energy management controller includes: a charge/discharge controller that is configured to, in accordance with an operation mode having an operation right among a plurality of operation modes, control charging and discharging of the storage battery through the power conditioning system; and an operation right granter that is configured to determine an operation mode to which the operation right is to be granted next based on a predetermined transition condition, and to grant the operation right to the operation mode determined thereby.