ELECTRIC POWER BIDDING SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC POWER BIDDING METHOD

• Main Authors: TANAKA SHINICHI, MIYATA MASANORI, MARUOKA NORIYUKI, HORIMOTO TAIZO, TAKEI TORU, NOJIMA YOSHIO, SHIBAYAMA KOJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.07.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric power bidding system which promotes competition between sellers who want to sell electric power and makes low the electric power buying price of a buyer who wants to buy electric power. SOLUTION: The electric power bidding system 10 is equipped with a buy- desired electric energy input part 12 which receives the input of buy-desired electric energy in specific time units from buyers who want to buy electric power, a buy-desired electric energy presentation part 14 which presents the buy-desired electric energy to sellers who want to sell electric power, a bidding part 16 which accepts the input of sell-desired electric energy and desirable sale prices from the sellers who want to sell electric power until a specific time before the specific time units is started, an elapse presentation part 18 which sequential presents the accepted sell-desired electric energy and desirable sale prices of the sellers who want to sell the electric power to other sellers who want to sell the electric power, and a competition process part 20 which determines a specific seller who want to sell the electric power and from whom the buyer who wants to buy the electric power should buy the electric power among the sellers who want to sell the electric power the specific time later.