US 11,955,799 B2
Supply-and-demand management apparatus, computer readable storage medium, and supply-and-demand management method
Takayuki Yamada, Saitama (JP); Koichiro Takemasa, Saitama (JP); Kazuyoshi Miyajima, Saitama (JP); Keiichi Takikawa, Tokyo (JP); and Yuiko Koga, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/010,853.
Application 17/010,853 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/000624, filed on Jan. 11, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-041346 (JP), filed on Mar. 7, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0006071 A1, Jan. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. H02J 3/14 (2006.01); G06Q 30/0208 (2023.01); G06Q 50/06 (2012.01); H02J 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC H02J 3/144 (2020.01) [G06Q 30/0208 (2013.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); H02J 3/008 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A supply-and-demand management system comprising:
at least one processor;
power generation equipment provided to each of a plurality of customers within a community;
a shared battery shared among the customers within the community;
a plurality of smart meters, each smart meter associated with a respective one of the power generation equipment of a customer;
a result management unit, implemented on the at least one processor, that manages a power supply result obtained from the smart meters indicating a result of power supplied by the power generation equipment among the plurality of customers of the community; and
a deriving unit, implemented on the at least one processor, that derives, based on power supply results from the power generation equipment of a first customer to other customers from among the plurality of customers, an incentive to supply power from the first customer to a second customer from among the other customers;
wherein
the deriving unit derives a lower incentive as a power supply level from the first customer to the second customer is higher than a power supply level to a customer other than the second customer, from among the other customers.