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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2012
Eneres Co.,ltd., Tokyo, JP;
The Japan Research Institute, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
ENERES Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
The Japan Research Institute, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A power demand management apparatus comprising a power demand acquiring section acquiring a predicted power demand; a consumer house information holding section that, for each of a plurality of request methods or request conditions, and for each of a plurality of consumer houses, holds a sensitivity indicating a probability that the consumer house will comply with a request; a consumer house selecting section that, when the predicted power demand exceeds a target value, selects a first consumer house whose sensitivity for a first request method or request condition is no less than a first reference value and selects a second consumer house whose sensitivity for a second request method or request condition is no less than a second reference value; and a restriction requesting section that issues requests for power demand restriction to the first and second consumer houses respectively using the first and second request methods or request conditions.