ENERGY-SAVING SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that the conventional energy-saving service requires initial investment of a contractor (for example, a user of an electric power consumption facility), the user and an energy-saving service provider can not necessarily receive a merit of energy-saving since the energy-service provider guarantees a target value of energy-saving to the user. SOLUTION: In the energy-saving service providing method, the present electric power consumption is obtained as for a facility of the user who desires to save energy owns the supervised load facility, the service provider installs an inverter, or an inverter and a motor, etc. to the supervised load facility, the number of rotation control by the inverter is performed, and a merit refund is obtained based on the difference between the present electric power consumption and the electric power consumption by inverter operation, and the merit refund is distributed while reflecting the merit refund according to the content agreed upon between the user and the service provider. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT