Method and device for registering electrical consumption and generation

A device for an energy management system in a form of at least one energy management unit for optimizing loads and generation in an energy management network, the device configured for connection in a power distribution system having at least one electrical consumer and at least one generator, the device comprising:

• switching elements and energy meters, which are influenceable or analyzable by the energy management unit via a connection thereto,
• wherein the switching elements are situated in a switching matrix such that the energy meters for the generators and the consumers are switchable in series or in parallel, as a function of a particular instantaneous feed-in rate or consumption rate, which are received by the energy management unit from different utility companies and, integrated into the switching matrix, an energy meter and at least one energy flow direction indicator being assigned to each generator and each consumer for billing.

A method for registering electrical consumption and generation in an energy management network, which has at least one energy management unit, and, in a power distribution system, at least one electrical consumer and at least one generator being interconnected via switching elements and energy meters, which are influenced or analyzed by the energy management unit, the method comprising:

• indexing, via a switching algorithm, the consumers, beginning with an instantaneous highest purchase price, and the generators, beginning with a lowest feed-in remuneration, and
• coupling the consumers and the generators via the switching elements such that a number of couplings of the consumers having high purchase prices with the generators having low feed-in remunerations is maximized.