Electric power generation device, electric power demand device, and electric power control system, and method of controlling electric power

• US 8,352,095 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2010
• Issued: 01/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Sun Me, Song, Ho Young
• Primary Examiner(s): BARNES-BULLOCK, CRYSTAL JOY
• Application Number:
  US12/887,788
• Publication Number:
  US 20110071699A1
• Time in Patent Office: 839 Days
• Field of Search: 700/286, 700/287, 700/291, 700/295, 700/297, 700/298, 702/57, 702 60- 62, 705/412
• US Class Current: 700/297
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2203/20 Simulating, e g planning, reliability check, modelling or computer assisted design [CAD]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/00 Circuit arrangements for ac mains or ac distribution networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/20 Information technology specific aspects, e.g. CAD, simulation, modelling, system security

Abstract

An electric power generation device includes: a storage unit that stores information about the electric power generation device; a transmitting unit that transmits information about the electric power generation device to a neighboring electric power demand device; a receiving unit that receives an electric power demand request from the neighboring electric power demand device; and an allocation unit that allocates electric power according to the electric power demand request.

Claims

1. An electric power generation device comprising:

a storage unit that stores information about the electric power generation device;

a transmitting unit that transmits information about the electric power generation device to a neighboring electric power demand device;

wherein the information about the electric power generation device comprises an electric power amount in which the electric power generation device holds and a position of the electric power generation device;

a receiving unit that receives an electric power demand request from the neighboring electric power demand device; and

an allocation unit that allocates electric power according to the electric power demand request.

2. The electric power generation device of claim 1, wherein the electric power generation device operates in one domain of an electric power network that is formed with a plurality of domains belonging to at least one of a plurality of hierarchies.

3. The electric power generation device of claim 2, further comprising a connection unit that registers to the electric power network to receive a domain in which the electric power generation device is to operate and to connect to the domain.

4. The electric power generation device of claim 3, wherein the information about the electric power generation device comprises at least one of an identifier, authentication information, and domain information, topology information within the electric power network, an electric power line capacity, and link information of the electric power generation device.

5. The electric power generation device of claim 2, wherein the transmitting unit further transmits information about the electric power generation device to a gateway node that collects the domain information, and

the receiving unit receives the electric power demand request through the gateway node.

6. An electric power demand device comprising:

a receiving unit that receives, from a neighboring electric power generation device, information of the electric power generation device;

wherein the information about the electric power generation device comprises an electric power amount in which the electric power generation device holds and a position of the electric power generation device;

a management unit that grasps a necessary electric power amount; and

a request unit that requests an electric power demand based on the necessary electric power amount and information of the electric power generation device.

7. The electric power demand device of claim 6, wherein the electric power demand device operates in one domain of an electric power network that is formed with a plurality of domains belonging to at least one of a plurality of hierarchies.

8. The electric power demand device of claim 7, further comprising a connection unit that registers to the electric power network to receive a domain in which the electric power generation device is to operate and to connect to the domain.

9. The electric power demand device of claim 7, wherein the request unit transmits at least one of the necessary electric power amount, an electric power use estimate time period, and constrains.

10. The electric power demand device of claim 7, wherein the request unit requests the electric power demand by selecting an optimum electric power generation device or requests the electric power demand to a gateway node that collects the domain information.

11. The electric power demand device of claim 6, wherein the management unit manages another electric power demand device;

and

the electric power demand is related to the another electric power demand device.

12. An electric power control system comprising a plurality of domains belonging to one of a plurality of hierarchies, the electric power control system comprising:

a plurality of domains each comprise

a plurality of supply nodes that transmit information comprising an electric power amount in which the electric power control system holds and a position of the electric power control system and that allocate electric power according to a request; and

a plurality of demand nodes that receive the information and that request an electric power demand to the supply node.

13. The electric power control system of claim 12, wherein the plurality of domains further comprise a gateway node that collects information about the plurality of domains.

14. The electric power control system of claim 13, wherein the plurality of supply nodes each transmit the information to the gateway node and at least one of the plurality of demand nodes;

and

the plurality of demand nodes each request the electric power demand by selecting an optimum supply node of the plurality of supply nodes or request the electric power demand to the gateway node.

15. The electric power control system of claim 13, wherein the gateway node exchanges information about the plurality of domains with the gateway node belonging to another domain.

16. A method of controlling electric power of an electric power control system comprising a plurality of domains belonging to one of a plurality of hierarchies, the method comprising:

transmitting, by a supply node, information including a holding electric power amount and a position to a demand node;

selecting, by the demand node, an optimum supply node based on the information and requesting an electric power demand; and

supplying, by the optimum supply node, electric power to the demand node.

17. A method of controlling electric power of an electric power control system comprising a plurality of domains belonging to one of a plurality of hierarchies, the method comprising:

transmitting, by a supply node, information including a holding electric power amount and a position to a gateway node;

requesting, by the demand node, an electric power demand to the gateway node;

selecting, by the gateway node, an optimum supply node based on the information and requesting the electric power demand; and

supplying, by the optimum supply node, electric power to the demand node.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising sharing, by the gateway node, the information with a gateway node belonging to another domain and requesting the electric power demand to the gateway node belonging to the another domain.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the gateway node belonging to the another domain belongs to a hierarchy different from that of the gateway node.