COMMUNICATION FACILITY POWER DEMAND MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND POWER DEMAND MANAGEMENT METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to use a storage battery included in a communication facility.SOLUTION: A power demand management device 1 for managing power demand of a communication base station 4 connected to a power system PL includes: a base station detection unit F12 that detects a predetermined communication base station 4 having traffic whose value is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, from the plurality of communication base stations 4; a discharge amount calculation unit F13 that detects a discharge target storage battery 43 from the storage batteries 43 included in the predetermined communication base station and calculates an amount of electricity to be discharged from the detected discharge target storage battery; and a discharge instruction unit F14 that instructs the discharge target storage battery 43 to discharge electricity having the calculated discharge amount.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】通信設備の持つ蓄電池を活用することができるようにすること。【解決手段】電力系統ＰＬに接続される通信基地局４の電力需要を管理する電力需要管理装置１は、複数の通信基地局４のうちトラフィックが所定値以下である所定の通信基地局４を検出する基地局検出部Ｆ１２と、所定の通信基地局の持つ蓄電池４３のうち放電対象の蓄電池４３を検出し、検出した放電対象の蓄電池から放電させる放電量を算出する放電量算出部Ｆ１３と、算出した放電量を放電対象の蓄電池４３に指示して放電させる放電指示部Ｆ１４と、を有する。【選択図】図１