Business management system and method for a deregulated electric power market using suppliers' special offers

摘要

A business management method with interactions between a direct electrical energy supplier, a plurality of indirect energy suppliers, and a plurality of customer energy consumers, the direct electrical energy supplier being the direct supplier of electricity to the customer energy consumers, and the indirect energy suppliers being indirect suppliers of the customer energy consumers by supplying the direct electrical energy supplier, comprises the steps of: the consumers providing respective electricity load profiles to the direct electrical energy supplier; the direct electrical energy supplier aggregating the respective projected electricity load profiles; the direct electrical energy supplier, in a low asking electrical energy price situation, generating economically advantageous specials for the situation taking account of the projected electricity load profiles; the direct electrical energy supplier deciding which ones of the specials to offer to which consumers, taking account of the projected electricity load profiles; the consumers reviewing the specials offered by the direct electrical energy supplier; the consumers reserving desirable specials with the direct electrical energy supplier; and the direct electrical energy supplier acting on the specials reservations to negotiate a price with the indirect energy supplier for providing electricity as specified in the specials to the consumers. The method is likewise applicable to other commodities such as a water supply, fuel gas supply, or the like.