Patent ID: 11955799
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A supply-and-demand management method comprising:
providing power generation equipment to each of a plurality of customers within a community;
providing a shared battery shared among the customers within the community;
providing a plurality of smart meters, each smart meter associated with a respective one of the power generation equipment of a customer;
obtaining a power supply result from the smart meters indicating a result of power supplied by the power generation equipment among the plurality of customers of the community; and
deriving, using at least one processor, 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 step 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.