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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2017
Dr. Ing. H.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft, Stuttgart, DE;
Barry Sole, Stuttgart, DE;
Ralf Oestreicher, Sindelfingen, DE;
Abstract
A method for distributing energy in a home energy management system including a central unit, at least one energy source and at least one energy consumer that are interconnected to exchange information. According to the method, the central unit generates information containing a first price information element and a first energy quantity information element for a predefined time period; the central unit transfers the information to the energy consumer; the energy consumer, taking account of the information, determines requirement information containing at least one requested energy quantity for the predefined time period; the energy consumer transfers the requirement information to the central unit; the central unit checks whether, at any given time, the total requested energy quantity determined from the transferred requirement information exceeds the energy quantity available at this time; and the central unit transfers confirmation information to the energy consumer or the method is carried out again.