Patent ID: 8504228
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: B60K,B60W,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An energy management apparatus for managing energy to be supplied to a system to which a paid energy resource can be supplied from outside, which is provided with two or more functional device units realizing a specific function using the input energy and adapted to satisfy an external request using at least one of the two or more functional device units such that supply of energy to the functional device units can be controlled, the apparatus comprising: a normalizing unit for normalizing input energy of each of the two or more functional device units in terms of a cost of the paid energy resource required for producing the input energy; and a determining unit for determining to which of the two or more functional device units a predetermined quantity of energy should be fed such that the cost of the paid energy resource incurred in the system to which the paid energy resource can be supplied from outside is reduced.