Power management apparatus and power management method

Abstract

A power management apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an assumed capacity and an assumed output of a plurality of vehicle groups corresponding to a demand response for maintaining a supply and demand balance of power; a small-scale vehicle group classification unit that classifies the vehicle groups into a plurality of small-scale vehicle groups; an expected value calculation unit that calculates a small-scale vehicle group expected value that is a maximum output sum of the small-scale vehicle groups; a request acceptance unit that accepts a request for the demand response; a request execution unit that causes the small-scale vehicle groups to execute the request for the demand response; and a priority order determination unit that determines priority order of the small-scale vehicle groups based on a time period and a type in which the request acceptance unit has accepted the request for the demand response.

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