Some embodiments include electric power demand stabilization methods and systems that may include receiving an indication that a specific controllable device will have a high power draw event; retrieving a power draw profile for the specific controllable device that includes at least a maximum power draw and an event duration; identifying a plurality of low priority controllable devices with a combined power draw that is substantially equal to the maximum power draw of the specific controllable device; and turning off the plurality of low priority controllable devices for a time period substantially equal to the event duration.

The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: an acquiring unit (11) which acquires an adjustment request specifying a control time period and a control amount for controlling power demand; a determining unit (12) which, on the basis of the adjustment request, determines a first consumer whose power demand is to be controlled, and a control amount of the first consumer and a time period during which power demand of the first consumer is controlled; and an inference unit (13) which infers whether, if power demand of the first consumer were controlled in accordance with a determination result made by the determining unit (12), power demand of the first consumer before and/or after control would change from power demand of the first consumer if the power demand were not controlled.

A monitoring system (10) includes an operation record information storage unit (21) to accumulate operation record information about an operating state of equipment (2) collected by an operation record information collection unit (11); an operation model generation unit (12) to generate, for each piece of the equipment, an operation model indicating an operating state of each piece of the equipment (2) based on the operation record information; and an equipment selection processing unit (13) to cause a user interface unit (14) to display operation models, and select the equipment (2) corresponding to an operation model selected by an administrator from the displayed operation models, as control target equipment to be a target of demand control.

A method includes obtaining data indicating an amount of energy stored by a battery of a sensor device; receiving data related to at least one condition in an area in which the sensor device is located; determining a reporting interval based on the data indicating the amount of energy stored by the battery of the sensor device and the data related to at least one condition in the area in which the sensor device is located; transmitting data indicating the reporting interval to the sensor device; and receiving a plurality of measurement reports transmitted from the sensor device according to the reporting interval. The energy consumed by the sensor device can be dynamically modified by dynamically modifying the reporting interval.

A power management device has power consumption information in a building of a power customer, and stores history information in which the acquired power consumption information and time information indicating a time frame in which power has been consumed in the building are associated with each other. When having received a request based on power supply and demand, the power management device determines ease or difficulty in management of power consumption according to the request, on the basis of the stored history information, and power-management-required time frame information indicating a time frame for which power management according to the request is required, and notifies the power customer of a determination result. Then the power management device receives acceptance or rejection of the request, and transmits response information corresponding to a received content, to a request source.

An electronic control system to control exploitation of electrical power produced by a household photovoltaic system to electrically power remotely electronically-controllable electric household appliances. The household photovoltaic system is electrically connected to a public electrical power mains and to a household electric system via an electronic electrical power meter configured to measure the electrical power produced by the household photovoltaic system and the electrical power absorbed from or supplied to the public electrical power mains as a result of an electrical power underproduction or overproduction of the household photovoltaic system compared to the electric power consumption of the household electric system. The electronic control system comprises an electronic control unit provided with a user programming interface and configured to communicate with the electronic electrical power meter to determine an excess of electrical power produced by the photovoltaic system over the electric power consumption of the household electric system.

A power management device has power consumption information in a building of a power customer, and stores history information in which the acquired power consumption information and time information indicating a time frame in which power has been consumed in the building are associated with each other. When having received a request based on power supply and demand, the power management device determines ease or difficulty in management of power consumption according to the request, on the basis of the stored history information, and power-management-required time frame information indicating a time frame for which power management according to the request is required, and notifies the power customer of a determination result. Then the power management device receives acceptance or rejection of the request, and transmits response information corresponding to a received content, to a request source.

A management apparatus that manages an electric power device of an electric power consumer, comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain characteristic information of the electric power device as information related to an environmental load; and a planning unit configured to plan a priority rank of an operation of the electric power device in utilization of electric power of the electric power device based on the characteristic information obtained by the obtaining unit.

A modular power supply and distribution system includes a controller and at least one power distribution bus operably connected to the controller. The system includes at least one power distribution bus that distributes electrical power to a plurality of loads. The system further includes a data communication network configured to communicate data between the system and the plurality of loads, power load logic for determining a power load requirement of each of the plurality of loads, hold-up logic for determining a hold-up requirement of at least one of the plurality of loads; and power distribution logic for distributing the electrical power to the plurality of loads based, at least in part, on the determined power load requirement of each of the plurality of loads and the hold-up requirement of the at least one of the plurality of loads.

Embodiments provide systems and methods for operating a power system to deliver energy. Embodiments include obtaining initial resource schedules for network analysis using a set of input and data validation functions; performing a network analysis with a full AC power flow in the energy system; executing a security constraint unit commitment function using transmission constraints output from the network analysis; determining an optimized outage schedule using the output of the security constraint unit commitment function; distributing the optimized outage schedule to a generation control and load management system; and directing operation of generator resources and managing loads to deliver energy to customers based on the optimized outage schedule. Numerous other aspects are provided.