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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Yahoo Japan Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Ikuo Kitagishi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 3/00 (2006.01); H02J 3/38 (2006.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06Q 50/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 3/38 (2013.01); G06Q 30/06 (2013.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); H02J 3/008 (2013.01); Y04S 50/10 (2013.01); Y10T 307/391 (2015.04);
Abstract
An electric power retail management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a power generation source selection unit. The power generation source selection unit selects, as a power generation source for supplying electric power corresponding to an amount of electric power supplied to each of electric power consumers, one or more power generation sources of which one or more types are selected by each of the electric power consumers from among a plurality of power generation sources for each electric power consumer on the basis of an amount of electric power supplied from the power generation sources.