US 12,107,716 B2
Stored power production source management device, method, and storage medium
Masato Shibuya, Saitama Saitama (JP); Mitsuru Kanda, Tokyo (JP); Yuzuru Kurihara, Tokyo (JP); Yoshiaki Ohsako, Nagareyama Chiba (JP); Takahiro Kase, Kawasaki Kanagawa (JP); and Chikara Takashima, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Kabushiki KaishaToshiba, Tokyo (JP); and Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation, Kawasaki (JP)
Filed by Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (JP); and Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation, Kawasaki (JP)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/530,379.
Application 17/530,379 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/019856, filed on May 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0078069 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 41/046 (2022.01); H02J 3/28 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 41/046 (2013.01) [H02J 3/28 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A stored power production source management device comprising:
a memory that stores a set of processor executable instructions;
a hardware processor configured to execute the set of processor executable instructions, causing the hardware processor to perform a method comprising:
for each of a plurality of power supply sources that supply power to charge a power storage:
acquiring first information identifying at least a type of the power supply source from among a plurality of types of power supply sources, storing, in a data storage on the basis of the first information, power supply source indication information indicating the type of the power supply source, and
associating the power supply source indication information with information indicating an amount of power supplied by the power supply source that is stored in the power storage, and
managing discharge of power from the power storage to a consumer by:
acquiring, from a consumer device associated with a consumer, second information including:
information indicating a demand amount of power,
information designating a preferred type of power supply source, and
information indicating a priority of the preferred type of power supply source,
virtually specifying one power supply source from among the plurality of power supply sources to supply power to the consumer on the basis of the second information,
subtracting the demand amount of power from the amount of power supplied by the virtually specified power supply source that is stored in the power storage, and
in a case where the amount of power supplied by the virtually specified power supply source that is stored in the power storage is smaller than the demand amount of power, virtually specifying, based on the priority, an additional type of power supply source from among the plurality of types of power supply sources, other than the preferred type of power source, to supply power to the consumer.