Patent ID: 7133787
Filing Date: 2006-11-07
Classification: H02J,Y02B,Y02E,Y04S

Abstract:
1. A method of managing electric power generators, comprising the steps of: (a) a managing device transmitting, via the Internet to either an electric power generator to be managed or an electric-power-generator-end communications device connected to an electric power generator to be managed, a request for a transmission of generated power quantity information for the electric power generator, the generated power quantity information being an information indicative of a power quantity which has been generated in the electric power generator; (b) either the electric power generator or the communications device transmitting the generated power quantity information indicating a generated power quantity for the electric power generator back to the managing device in response to the request; (c) the managing device storing the generated power quantity information into a database in association with the electric power generator which transmitted back the generated power quantity information or the electric power generator to which is connected the communications device which transmitted back the generated power quantity information; and (d) the managing device deciding a timing to transmit a request for a transmission of generated power quantity information for the electric power generators so that timings of transmitting the generated power quantity informations disperse to avoid crowdedness of communication due to transmission of the generated power quantity information from the plural electric power generators, wherein the managing device delays transmission of the request for transmission of the generated power quantity information if workload due to the request exceeds a predetermined value.