Method, Apparatus, and Product for distribution-based incentives relating to resource consumption

An apparatus having a processing unit and a storage device, the apparatus comprising:

• a receiver configured to be executed by the processing unit and stored on the storage device, the receiver configured to obtain from one or more monitoring devices monitoring information relating to resource consumption by a consumer over a space, wherein the space is partitioned into slots, wherein based on the monitoring information a consumption tuple of a consumer can be determined;
• a distribution obtaining module configured to be executed by the processing unit and stored on the storage device, the distribution obtaining module configured for obtaining a predetermined distribution of consumption of the resource, which is associated with the consumer;
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• a price computation module configured to be executed by the processing unit and stored on the storage device, the price computation module processing unit configured to compute a price of consumption by the consumer based on the consumption tuple, wherein the price is computed using a pricing function which is based on the predetermined distribution received by the distribution obtaining module, whereby a price associated with resource consumption in a slot depends upon resource consumption in other slots.