Patent ID: 7925597

Claim:
A power system stabilization system for stabilizing a small-scale electric power system to which electrical power generated by a rotating power generator is supplied, said power system system comprising: an electric water heater that receives electrical power from the electric power system and heats water; a system frequency measuring device that measures system frequency of the electrical power supplied to the electric power system; and a hot water controller that increases power consumption of said electric water heater when the system frequency exceeds a reference frequency, and decreases the power consumption of said electric water heater when the system frequency is less than the reference frequency, wherein said hot water controller has a dead zone that is preset and is bounded by a dead zone upper limit and a dead zone lower limit, increases power consumption by an amount proportional to deviation of the system frequency from the dead zone upper limit when the system frequency exceeds the dead zone upper limit, decreases the power consumption by an amount proportional to deviation of the system frequency from the dead zone lower limit when the system frequency is less than the dead zone lower limit, has an up side control delay time or a down side control delay time that is preset to delay when the power consumption of said electric water heater begins to be increased or decreased from when the system frequency has deviated from the dead zone, increases the power consumption of said electric water heater when the system frequency has continuously exceeded the dead zone upper limit for the up side control delay time, beginning from when the system frequency exceeds the dead zone upper limit, decreases the power consumption of said electric water heater when the system frequency has been continuously less than the dead zone lower limit for the down side control delay time, beginning from when the system frequency becomes less than the dead zone lower limit, has a hot water storage rate upper limit and a hot water storage rate lower limit for hot water storage rate of said electric water heater, the hot water storage rate upper limit and the hot water storage rate lower limit being set beforehand, moves the dead zone toward a higher frequency, extends the up side control delay time, and shortens the down side control delay time when the hot water storage rate exceeds the hot water storage rate upper limit, and moves the dead zone toward a lower frequency, shortens the up side control delay time, and extends the down side control delay time when the hot water storage rate is less than the hot water storage rate lower limit.