Method of controlling the energy consumption in an energy network

• Main Authors: RAEHMER, SILKE, KOPP, DIETER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 09.10.2013
• Subjects: CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTINGELECTRIC POWER; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRICITY; GENERATION; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY

The present invention concerns a method of controlling the consumption of energy, a home energy box, a data processing unit and a substation of an energy network. The method comprises the steps of (12) managing the demand of energy by managing a balance between a generation and a consumption of energy in the energy network, handling (13) a local energy consumption at a residential user (23) and billing (14) a local energy consumed at the residential user (23). The home energy box is adapted to allocate an energy consumed at the residential user (23) to tariffs corresponding to tariff information received from an energy network operator (27) and to send data on the consumed energy allocated to the tariffs from the residential user to a retailer (28). The data processing unit is adapted to receive measuring data about consumed energy and energy insertion from one or more measuring units at one or more substations, to generate based on the received data flexible tariff information and to send tariff information to residential users (23). The substation is adapted to measure an energy consumption and/or an energy insertion and to send data on the measured energy consumption and/or on the energy insertion to an energy network operator (27).