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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2016
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Kenichi Watanabe, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A received power control device () that performs control of received energy, which is an amount of power received from a power system per predetermined time at a power receiving point to which a load () and an electric storage device () are electrically connected, the received power control device () performing the control by controlling charge and discharge of at least the electric storage device (), including: a received energy obtainer () that periodically obtains information indicating the received energy; a controller () that causes at least the electric storage device () to discharge to prevent the received energy from exceeding a first threshold; a remaining capacity obtainer () that periodically obtains information indicating a remaining capacity of the electric storage device (); and a threshold setter () that increases the first threshold when an amount of decrease in the remaining capacity per unit time exceeds a second threshold.