Managing consumer energy demand

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• receiving an energy consumption profile which spans multiple intervals in a period of time;
• predicting a net energy demand of a consumer system over the period of time;
• determining a first multiple to apply to the received energy consumption profile to satisfy the predicted net energy demand of the consumer system, wherein the first multiple is determined based on an amount of energy stored in an energy storage device electrically coupled to the consumer system and a total energy storage capacity of the energy storage device;
• and
• fulfilling an actual net energy demand of the consumer system by performing a process for each of the multiple intervals, the process including:
• presenting an energy demand to a utility, the energy demand corresponding to the first multiple applied to a portion of the energy consumption profile which corresponds to the given interval,
• receiving an amount of energy from the utility which corresponds to the energy demand presented to the utility,
• determining whether the amount of energy received from the utility is less than the actual net energy demand of the consumer system for the given interval,
• supplementing the amount of energy received from the utility with energy stored in the energy storage device in response to determining that the amount of energy received from the utility is less than the actual net energy demand of the consumer system for the given interval, and
• using a difference between the amount of energy received from the utility and the actual net energy demand of the consumer system for the given interval to increase the amount of energy stored in the energy storage device in response to determining that the amount of energy received from the utility is not less than the actual net energy demand of the consumer system for the given interval.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions readable and/or executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

• receiving, by the processor, an energy consumption profile which spans multiple intervals in a period of time;
• predicting, by the processor, a net energy demand of a consumer system over the period of time;
• determining, by the processor, a first multiple which, when applied to the received energy consumption profile, produces an updated energy consumption profile which corresponds to an amount of energy that is capable of satisfying the predicted net energy demand of the consumer system;
• estimating, by the processor, a greatest amount of underprediction by which the predicted net energy demand of the consumer system underpredicts an actual net energy demand of the consumer system over the period of time;
• estimating, by the processor, a greatest amount of overprediction by which the predicted net energy demand of the consumer system overpredicts the actual net energy demand of the consumer system over the period of time;
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• computing, by the processor, an initial state of an energy storage device electrically coupled to the consumer system which is able to satisfy the actual net energy demand of the consumer system according to the updated energy consumption profile,
• wherein the initial state of the energy storage device is based on a second multiple applied to each of the greatest amount of underprediction, and the greatest amount of overprediction.