Electric power control method and electric power control device

• US 9,685,788 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2015
• Issued: 06/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sugimoto, Takahiro, Funakura, Masami, Zhang, Wei
• Primary Examiner(s): Kik, Phallaka
• Application Number:
  US14/711,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20150340900A1
• Time in Patent Office: 768 Days
• Field of Search: 320134, 320110, 320155, 320160
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/64 The condition being economic, e.g. tariff based load management
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/14 by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/32 using batteries with converting means
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

An electric power control method for an electric power load and an electric power storage device including assigning one of a peak shaving control or other services to at least one of time slots that are divided by a specific time unit, obtaining a consumption power of the electric power load of each of the time slots, determining power-purchase electric power according to the consumption power of each of the time slots, restricting a consumption power of the electric power load at one or more peak slots where the consumption power of the electric power load is more than or equal to a target power-purchase electric power upper limit, restricting the restricted consumption power of the electric power load and discharging the electric power storage device at one or more peak slots if the restricted consumption power of the electric power load is more than or equal to a target power-purchase electric power upper limit and the peak shaving is assigned.

Claims

1. An electric power control method for an electric power load and an electric power storage device disposed in a customer'"'"'s electrical system, the method comprising:

assigning one of a peak shaving control or an other service to at least one of time slots that are divided by a specific time unit;

obtaining a consumption power of the electric power load of each of the time slots;

determining power-purchase electric power according to the consumption power of each of the time slots;

restricting a consumption power of the electric power load in a peak time slot, in which the consumption power of the electric power load is more than or equal to a target power-purchase electric power upper limit; and

restricting the restricted consumption power of the electric power load and discharging the electric power storage device in the peak time slot, when the restricted consumption power of the electric power load is more than or equal to the target power-purchase electric power upper limit and the peak shaving is assigned.

2. The electric power control method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an environmental index changing in accordance with an output of the electric power load, and

restricting the consumption power of the electric power load, when the environmental index is within a predetermined range.

3. The electric power control method according to claim 2, further comprising discharging the electric power storage device and increasing the consumption power of the electric power load, when the environmental index is outside the predetermined range.

4. The electric power control method according to claim 2, wherein

the environmental index is a value that determines a degree of intensity at which an electric power restriction can be performed on the electric power load, and

the environmental index includes at least one of a temperature, a humidity, a sensible temperature, a discomfort index, a predicted mean value, an amount of solar radiation, a number of people inside a room, and a CO₂ concentration.

5. The electric power control method according to claim 2, wherein

after the environmental index is received, it is determined whether or not the environmental index is within the predetermined range,

when it is determined that the environmental index is within the predetermined range, the peak time slot is determined, and

the consumption power is restricted in the determined peak time slot, when it is determined that the environmental index is within the predetermined range.

6. The electric power control method according to claim 1, wherein the electric power consumption of the electric power load is increased before the peak time slot, in which the consumption power of the electric power load is more than or equal to the target power-purchase electric power upper limit.

7. The electric power control method according to claim 1, wherein the electric power storage device is discharged within a scope in which a remaining capacity required to perform the other service, when the other service is assigned after the peak shaving in the peak time slot.

8. The electric power control method according to claim 1, wherein the power-purchase electric power is determined after the peak time slot, and the electric power storage device is discharged after the peak time slot, when the determined power-purchase electric power is more than or equal to the target power-purchase electric power upper limit and the peak shaving is assigned.

9. The electric power control method according to claim 1, further comprising stopping restricting the consumption power of the electric power load after the peak time slot, in which the consumption power of the electric power load is more than or equal to the target power-purchase electric power upper limit.

10. The electric power control method according to claim 1, wherein a system power source and the electric power storage device are capable of supplying electric power to the electric power load,

when the restricted consumption power of the electric power load is more than or equal to the target power-purchase electric power upper limit in the peak time slot and the peak shaving is assigned, the electric power discharged by the electric power storage device is supplied to the electric power load to reduce the electric power supplied from the system power source to the electric power load.

11. An electric power control device for an electric power load and an electric power storage device, the electric power control device comprising:

at least one memory; and

circuitry operative to;

assign one of a peak shaving control or an other service to at least one of time slots that are divided by a specific time unit;

obtain a consumption power of the electric power load of each of the time slots;

determine power-purchase electric power according to the consumption power of each of the time slots;

restrict a consumption power of the electric power load in a peak time slot, in which the consumption power of the electric power load is more than or equal to a target power-purchase electric power upper limit; and

restrict the restricted consumption power of the electric power load and discharging the electric power storage device in the peak time slot, when the restricted consumption power of the electric power load is more than or equal to the target power-purchase electric power upper limit and the peak shaving is assigned.