Power storage equipment management system

• US 20060122738A1
• Filed: 12/01/2005
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yamada, Kazuo, Fukushima, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 7,783,389 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/295
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/50 Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications

Abstract

A power storage equipment management system has a power storage equipment, and a management server for managing power information of the power storage equipment. The power storage equipment includes a power receiving unit for obtaining power for charging and power information, a power supplying unit for supplying charged power to a load, an information controller for generating power information by charging and discharging of the power receiving unit or the power supplying unit, and a communication unit for transmitting the power information to the management server. The management server includes an information management unit for determining a consideration with respect to the power information transmitted from the power storage equipment by using consideration information which has been set beforehand.

Claims

1. A power storage equipment management system comprising

a power storage equipment and

a management server for managing power information of the power storage equipment, wherein

the power storage equipment includes

a power receiving unit for obtaining power for charging and power information,

a power supplying unit for supplying charged power to a load,

an information controller for generating power information by charging and discharging of the power receiving unit or the power supplying unit and

a communication unit for transmitting the power information to the management server and

the management server includes

an information management unit for determining a consideration with respect to the power information transmitted from the power storage equipment by using consideration information which has been set beforehand.

2. A power storage equipment management system according to claim 1 which further comprises

a power generation equipment and

a power receiving unit which is charged with power from the power generation equipment or power from a power system.

3. The power storage equipment management system according to claim 2, wherein

the power generation equipment is a power generation equipment utilizing natural energy or a fuel cell, or a power generation equipment using a gas engine generator.

4. The power storage equipment management system according to claim 1, wherein the power receiving unit receives an information of either a type of power or a receiving time.

5. The power storage equipment management system according to claim 1, wherein the power supplying unit receives an information of either a time at which power is supplied from the power storage equipment to the load or a consumption class.

6. The power storage equipment management system according to claim 1, wherein

the consideration to be determined by the information management unit is set corresponding to at least one of a difference in environmental load between the power information received by the power receiving unit and the power information supplied the power supplying unit, and a improvement of load factor with respect to an outside power supplying system.

7. A power storage equipment management system according to claim 1, wherein

the management server includes

a contractor information storage for storing an information of power price, type of power receiving time or the like,

a value obtainment applicant information storage for storing consideration information in which power setting information having been set by a value obtainment applicant and a consideration are associated.

8. The power storage equipment management system according to claim 7, wherein

the management server includes a disclosure information storage for storing disclosure information including the consideration information, and

in the case where there are plural pieces of consideration information stored on the value obtainment applicant information storage, the information management unit selects all pieces of consideration information associated with the power information received from the power storage equipment, and causes the disclosure information including all pieces of the consideration information selected to be viewable, and in the case of receiving information that a contractor of the power storage equipment selected a specific piece of consideration information among all pieces of the viewable consideration information selected, the information unit determines a consideration included in the consideration information selected as a consideration of the contractor.

9. A management server of a power storage equipment management system, comprising:

a communication unit for receiving a power information relating to charging or discharging from a power storage equipment which charges or discharges power;

a contractor information storage for storing an information of power price, type of power receiving time or the like,

a value obtainment applicant information storage for storing, in advance, consideration information, in which the power information is associated with a consideration, for each value obtainment applicant providing the consideration; and

an information management unit for determining a consideration corresponding to the power information received by using the consideration information, wherein

the communication unit informs the contractor and the value obtainment applicant who has set the consideration of the consideration being determined.

10. A power storage equipment management method comprising the steps of:

i) obtaining power for charging a power storage equipment;

ii) supplying the power charged in the power storage equipment to a load;

iii) generating a power information relating to charged power or discharged power yielded in the above step i) or in the above step ii)

iv) transmitting the power information to a management server; and

v) determining, by the management server, a consideration with respect to the power information transmitted from the power storage equipment by using the consideration information which has been set beforehand.

11. A power storage equipment management program for allowing a computer to execute the steps of:

i) obtaining power for charging a power storage equipment;

ii) supplying the power charged in the power storage equipment to a load;

iii) generating a power information relating to charged power or discharged power yielded in the above step i) or in the above step ii)

iv) transmitting the power information to a management server; and

v) determining, by the management server, a consideration with respect to the power information transmitted from the power storage equipment by using the consideration information which has been set beforehand.