The present invention provides a planning apparatus for creating an operation plan for a hydrogen production system including a hydrogen generation apparatus, comprising: an acquisition portion for acquiring a demand response from a power operator; and an operation planning portion for creating the operation plan based on the demand response before a target period of the operation plan and at least one of a electricity price, a demand amount of hydrogen and an amount of stored hydrogen before the target period.

A hydrogen-system control device according to the present embodiment is a control system for a hydrogen system that produces hydrogen: a first setter; a second setter configured to set an actual power consumption amount obtained by reducing a reduced power amount from the first power consumption amount in advance, when the demand response for reducing the first power consumption amount in the request period is requested the device comprising: and a controller configured to control a power amount of the second power in the request period based on the actual power consumption amount. The second setter is configured to set the actual power consumption amount in a range in which the hydrogen system is able to achieve a target amount of hydrogen to be produced in a first period that includes the request period and is longer than the request period.

An electric power management system includes a solar radiation amount measurement device that measures a solar radiation amount received by the solar power generation device, and a control device that outputs a control command including a command for the load facility. The control device includes a pre-processing unit that outputs information used to generate the control command, and a command generation unit that outputs the control command, on the basis of the information output by the pre-processing unit. The pre-processing unit includes a prediction unit that outputs electric power expected to be output by the electric power generation facility as estimated generation electric power, on the basis of the solar radiation amount. The command generation unit includes a load command unit that outputs the control command including a command for increasing and decreasing the load electric power to the load facility, on the basis of the estimated generation electric power.

A hybrid energy storage system with chemical/electrochemical dual technology for mobile, propulsion and stationary applications of electric power units, used to supply energy to a user, including a battery pack having a plurality of batteries and a tank containing metal hydrides arranged in thermal contact with the batteries that form said battery pack. The hydride tank includes a plurality of tanks integrated in the battery pack. The system includes a containment body in which several housings are formed for the tanks and the batteries, respectively.

Before start of vehicle charging by using a power network, a first determination unit determines whether reserve of the power network is not less than a first reference value. When reserve of the power network is not less than the first reference value, a first permission unit permits supply of electric power from the power network to a vehicle. When reserve of the power network is smaller than the first reference value, a second determination unit determines whether or not electric power corresponding to charging power can be supplied to the power network by having at least one of power adjustment resources respond to vehicle charging. When the second determination unit determines that electric power can be supplied, a second permission unit permits supply of electric power from the power network to the vehicle.

A system for supplying energy to electrically operated mining machines, which system includes a hybrid power-generation arrangement for outputting electricity for the mining machines, a cable routing system for routing at least one power cable from the hybrid power-generation arrangement to the mining machines, and at least one energy source for supplying energy to the hybrid power-generation arrangement, wherein the hybrid power-generation arrangement has an electrochemical energy store, a fuel cell and an internal combustion engine generator.

The disclosure concerns a controller arranged to control an energy system where the energy system comprises one or more first energy operators and one or more second energy operators, an energy storing system and an energy storing system monitoring device. The controller is arranged to have control over variation in operation of the one or more first energy operators and variation in operation of the second energy operators is at least partially beyond the control of the controller. At least one of the energy operators is an energy supply system and at least one and the remainder of the energy operators are energy consuming systems. At least two of the energy operators are variable energy operators. Where an energy supply system is a variable energy operator, variation in operation of that energy supply system adjusts the energy it supplies. Where an energy consuming system is a variable energy operator, variation in operation of that energy consuming system adjusts the energy it consumes. Outputs of the energy supply systems, inputs of the energy consuming systems and a connection of the energy storing system are connected by a common connection such that they are maintained at the same potential. The energy storing system is arranged to provide energy to the common connection to compensate where there is a deficit in energy supplied by the at least one energy supply system as compared with the energy demand from the at least one energy consuming system. The controller comprises an input arranged to receive a data signal indicative of the power output of the energy storing system from the energy storing system monitoring device; a processing system arranged to determine, in accordance with the energy storing system power output data received, whether and to what extent there is a deficit which exceeds an energy storing system discharging set point value, and where there is, a variation in control for at least one of the first energy operators corresponding in magnitude to the determined extent of the deficit to compensate and return the deficit to the energy storing system discharging set point value; and an output via which the processing system sends one or more control signals to control the at least one of the first energy operators accordingly.

An energy production system including a hydraulic turbine system having undesirable electrical power output setpoints and identified safe electrical power output setpoints, an energy storage system, a connection connected to the energy storage system and to an electric machine of the hydraulic turbine system, and further connected to an AC power network, a device for determining the state of charge, a control circuit controlling a transfer of electrical power between the connection and the energy storage system, configured to receive an electrical power setpoint value (Reps) and configured to determine that this received electrical power setpoint value belongs to the undesirable electrical power output setpoint values to generate an electrical power transfer setpoint value (Epts), and an actual electrical power output setpoint value (Aepos) belonging to the safe electrical power output setpoint values, satisfying the relationship Reps=Epts+Aepos.

An energy storage system includes a heat generation apparatus configured to generate heat from electric power and a heat storage device configured to store the heat generated by the heat generation apparatus, the heat generation apparatus including an electric motor connected to an electric power system and rotated by surplus electric power received from the electric power system, and a heat generator having a rotary unit rotated by the electric motor and a heat generating unit configured to generate heat through electromagnetic induction, and configured to convert rotational force of the electric motor to heat.

Demand-based closed-loop control is used in an electrochemical plant that has modules and a control unit, with each module being individually controlled by the control unit and supplied with a module-specific electric operating current. For each module to generate a separate product flow, product flows of the individual modules, connected in parallel, are merged to form a total product flow. When a start condition occurs, the control unit records a current total product flow demand, records a current efficiency of the modules based on a ratio of respective operating current and product flow, determines operationally ready modules, determines module-specific target operating currents for the operationally ready modules to cover the demand from a range of permissible module-specific target operating currents based on the efficiency of the modules and the demand, and sets the operating currents of the operationally ready modules to the determined module-specific target operating currents.