Power management system, server, and power supply and demand adjustment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12237685-B2
Application number	US-202217571684-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 10, 2022
Priority date	Jan 28, 2021
Publication date	Feb 25, 2025
Grant date	Feb 25, 2025

Abstract

A power management system includes a CEMS server that outputs a DR request to a plurality of power adjustment resources such that balancing is achieved every prescribed time period. The plurality of power adjustment resources include: a power-storage-type DER that stores the supply power in an energy form of at least one of electricity, heat and gas fuel; and a consumption-type DER that consumes the supply power by at least one of air conditioning and lighting. In a case where it is expected in the middle of the prescribed time period that the actual amount of power exceeds the planned amount of power at the end of the prescribed time period, the CEMS server outputs, to the power-storage-type DER more preferentially than to the consumption-type DER, the DR request for decreasing the actual amount of power in comparison with before expectation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A power management system that manages power supply and demand in a power grid, the power management system comprising:
a plurality of power adjustment resources used to adjust supply power from a power system to the power grid; and
a controller that outputs a demand response request to the plurality of power adjustment resources such that balancing is achieved, the balancing being control for matching an actual amount of power expected to be used in a prescribed time period with a planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period, wherein
the plurality of power adjustment resources include:
a power-storage-type distributed energy resource (DER) that stores the supply power in an energy form of at least one of electricity, heat and gas fuel; and
a consumption-type DER that consumes the supply power by at least one of air conditioning and lighting, and

in a case where the controller determines in the middle of the prescribed time period that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period will exceed the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period, the controller performs the following steps:
(a) when the excess of the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period can be eliminated by decreasing storage of the supply power by the power-storage-type DER, the controller outputs, to the power-storage-type DER, the demand response request for decreasing storage of the supply power in comparison with a case where the controller determines that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period will not exceed the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period, but the controller does not output, to the consumption-type DER, the demand response request for decreasing consumption of the supply power in comparison with the case where the controller determines that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period will not exceed the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period, and
(b) when the excess of the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period cannot be eliminated only by decreasing storage of the supply power by the power-storage-type DER, the controller outputs, to the power-storage-type DER, the demand response request for decreasing storage of the supply power in comparison with the case where the controller determines that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period will not exceed the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period, and also outputs, to the consumption-type DER, the demand response request for decreasing consumption of the supply power in comparison with the case where the controller determines that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period will not exceed the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period.

2. The power management system according to claim 1 , wherein
in the case where the controller determines in the middle of the prescribed time period that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period is smaller than the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period, the controller outputs, to the consumption-type DER more preferentially than to the power-storage-type DER, the demand response request for increasing the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period in comparison with the case where the controller determines that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period is not smaller than the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period.

3. The power management system according to claim 2 , wherein
in the case where the controller determines in the middle of the prescribed time period that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period is smaller than the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period, the controller performs the following steps:
(c) when the shortage of the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period relative to the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period can be eliminated by increasing consumption of the supply power by the consumption-type DER, the controller outputs, to the consumption-type DER, the demand response request for increasing consumption of the supply power in comparison with the case where the controller determines that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period is not smaller than the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period, but does not output, to the power-storage-type DER, the demand response request for increasing storage of the supply power in comparison with the case where the controller determines that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period is not smaller than the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period, and
(d) when the shortage of the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period relative to the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the time period cannot be eliminated only by increasing consumption of the supply power by the consumption-type DER, the controller outputs, to the consumption-type DER, the demand response request for increasing consumption of the supply power in comparison with the case where the controller determines that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period is not smaller than the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period, and also outputs, to the power-storage-type DER, the demand response request for increasing storage of the supply power in comparison with the case where the controller determines that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period is not smaller than the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period.

4. A server that manages a plurality of power adjustment resources used to adjust supply power from a power system to a power grid, wherein
the plurality of power adjustment resources include:
a power-storage-type DER that stores the supply power in an energy form of at least one of electricity, heat and gas fuel; and
a consumption-type DER that consumes the supply power by at least one of air conditioning and lighting,

the server includes:
a processor; and
a memory that stores a program executed by the processor,
the processor outputs a demand response request to the plurality of power adjustment resources such that balancing is achieved, the balancing being control for matching an actual amount of power expected to be used in a prescribed time period with a planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period, and

in a case where the processor determines in the middle of the prescribed time period that the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period exceeds the planned amount of power to be used by the end of the prescribed time period, the processor performs the following steps:
(a) when the excess of the actual amount of power expected to be used in the prescribed time period can be eliminated by decreasing storage of the supply power by the power-storage-type DER, the processor outputs, to the power-storage-type DER, the demand response request for decreasing storage of the supply power in comparison with a case where the processor determines that the actual amount of power expected to be used

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hamada Shigetaka
• Hirose Haruka
• Horii Yusuke
• Nakamura Toru
• Sano Takaaki

Classifications

• H02J2105/42

  Home appliances · CPC title

• H02J2105/12

  supplying households or buildings · CPC title

• H02J2101/24

  Photovoltaics · CPC title

• H02J13/14

  the power network being locally controlled, e.g. home energy management systems [HEMS] · CPC title

• H02J3/17

  Demand-responsive operation of AC power transmission or distribution networks · CPC title