Electric power trade apparatus and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020175615-A1
Application number	US-201916696446-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 26, 2019
Priority date	Nov 29, 2018
Publication date	Jun 4, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

An electric power trade apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to perform determining whether it is possible to make a purchase concerning a purchase amount indicated in purchase requests received from respective purchasers of electric power having received a power-saving request, on the basis of the purchase amount and a sellable amount indicated in sale requests received from respective sellers of electric power, upon receiving the purchase requests, transmitting information for enabling any given one of the purchasers to make a reply to the power-saving request upon determining that purchase concerning a corresponding one of the purchase requests is possible, and allocating, to the sale requests, respective sale amounts a sum of which is equal to the purchase amount, on the basis of the purchase amount and the sellable amount after the information is transmitted.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electric power trade apparatus comprising:
a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to perform: determining whether it is possible to make a purchase concerning a purchase amount indicated in one or more purchase requests received from one or more respective purchasers of electric power having received a power-saving request, on the basis of the purchase amount and a sellable amount indicated in one or more sale requests received from one or more respective sellers of electric power, upon receiving the purchase requests; transmitting information for enabling any given one of the purchasers to make a reply to the power-saving request upon determining that purchase concerning a corresponding one of the purchase requests is possible; and allocating, to the one or more sale requests, respective sale amounts a sum of which is equal to the purchase amount, on the basis of the purchase amount and the sellable amount after the information is transmitted.

2 . The electric power trade apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to allocate the sale amounts to the sale requests after a reply deadline to the power-saving request.

3 . The electric power trade apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more purchase requests are a plurality of purchase requests, and the purchase amount is a total purchase amount indicated in the plurality of purchase requests,
wherein the determining comprises determining whether it is possible to make a purchase with regard to each of the purchase requests, the transmitting comprises transmitting the information for enabling the reply separately for each of the purchase requests for which purchase is determined to be possible, the allocating comprises allocating, to the one or more sale requests, the respective sale amounts a sum of which is equal to the total purchase amount, on the basis of the total purchase amount and the sellable amount of the one or more sale requests, and the processor is further configured to create data indicative of matches between the sale requests and the purchase requests on the basis of the allocating.

4 . The electric power trade apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the purchase requests and the sale requests are recorded to a block chain, and
the processor is further configured to add, to the block chain, the information for enabling the purchaser to make the reply to the power-saving request.

5 . An electric power trade method comprising:
determining whether it is possible to make a purchase concerning a purchase amount indicated in one or more purchase requests received from one or more respective purchasers of electric power having received a power-saving request, on the basis of the purchase amount and a sellable amount indicated in one or more sale requests received from one or more respective sellers of electric power, upon receiving the purchase requests; transmitting information for enabling any given one of the purchasers to make a reply to the power-saving request upon determining that purchase concerning a corresponding one of the purchase requests is possible, and allocating, to the one or more sale requests, respective sale amounts a sum of which is equal to the purchase amount, on the basis of the purchase amount and the sellable amount after the information is transmitted.

6 . The electric power trade method according to claim 5 , wherein the allocating further comprises allocating the sale amounts to the sale requests after a reply deadline to the power-saving request.

7 . The electric power trade method according to claim 5 , wherein the one or more purchase requests are a plurality of purchase requests, and the purchase amount is a total purchase amount indicated in the plurality of purchase requests,
wherein the determining comprises determining whether it is possible to make a purchase with regard to each of the purchase requests, the transmitting comprises transmitting the information for enabling the reply separately for each of the purchase requests for which purchase is determined to be possible, and the allocating comprises allocating, to the one or more sale requests, the respective sale amounts a sum of which is equal to the total purchase amount, on the basis of the total purchase amount and the sellable amount of the one or more sale requests, wherein the electric power trade method further comprises creating data indicative of matches between the sale requests and the purchase requests on the basis of the allocating.

8 . A non-transitory recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute processing comprising:
determining whether it is possible to make a purchase concerning a purchase amount indicated in one or more purchase requests received from one or more respective purchasers of electric power having received a power-saving request, on the basis of the purchase amount and a sellable amount indicated in one or more sale requests received from one or more respective sellers of electric power, upon receiving the purchase requests; transmitting information for enabling any given one of the purchasers to make a reply to the power-saving request upon determining that purchase concerning a corresponding one of the purchase requests is possible; and allocating, to the one or more sale requests, respective sale amounts a sum of which is equal to the purchase amount, on the basis of the purchase amount and the sellable amount after the information is transmitted.

9 . The non-transitory recording medium according to claim 8 , wherein the allocating further comprises allocating the sale amounts to the sale requests after a reply deadline to the power-saving request.

10 . The non-transitory recording medium according to claim 8 , wherein the one or more purchase requests are a plurality of purchase requests, and the purchase amount is a total purchase amount indicated in the plurality of purchase requests,
wherein the determining comprises determining whether it is possible to make a purchase with regard to each of the purchase requests, the transmitting comprises transmitting the information for enabling the reply separately for each of the purchase requests for which purchase is determined to be possible, the allocating comprises allocating, to the one or more sale requests, the respective sale amounts a sum of which is equal to the total purchase amount, on the basis of the total purchase amount and the sellable amount of the one or more sale requests, and wherein the program further causes the computer to execute processing comprising creating data indicative of matches between the sale requests and the purchase requests on the basis of the allocating.

Assignees

• Fujitsu Ltd

Inventors

• Kozakura Fumihiko
• Fujimoto Shingo

Classifications

• H02J3/008

  Circuit arrangements for power supply or distribution technologies responsive to energy trading · CPC title

• G06Q30/06

  Buying, selling or leasing transactions · CPC title

• G06Q50/06 Primary

  Energy or water supply · CPC title

• H02J13/0086

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06Q40/04

  Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange · CPC title