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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2023
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Takaaki Haruna, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an electric power supply-demand adjustment system for performing electric power supply-demand adjustment by causing, by using a computer including a processor and memory, customers to control power consumption in accordance with an instruction issued by an aggregator, the processor, on the basis of demand response (DR) event information stored in the memory and including a scheduled event regarding the electric power supply-demand adjustment, and customer profile information stored in the memory and indicating a feature of a time-shiftable process performed by the customers consuming electric power, obtains a combination of processes shifted within an acceptable range, in which combination a power reduction amount fulfills a requested adjustment amount, to generate, for each of the customers, DR request information including a request for supply-demand adjustment of a power adjustment amount determined by the scheduled DR event, and determines a width of the shift to carry out electric power supply-demand adjustment.