Electric power system and uninterruptible power supply for important load

Abstract

To provide an electric power system capable of adequately controlling the power flow in an AC switch () constituting an interruptible power supply, an electric power system according to the present invention includes: an uninterruptible power supply () including an AC switch () provided between a commercial power supply () and an output part (), a secondary battery (), and an inverter () provided between the AC switch () and secondary battery (); an important load () connected to the output part (); a photovoltaic power supply () connected to the output part (); an electric power detection section () that detects the power consumption of all loads including the important load (); an electric power detection section () that detects charge/discharge power of the secondary battery (); and a controller () that inputs thereto detection values from the electric power detection section () and electric power detection section () and outputs a control command value for controlling the secondary battery (), in which the controller () determines the upper and lower limit values of the control command value for operating the secondary battery () based on the detection values from the electric power detection section () and electric power detection section ().