Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for predicting the temporal course of a power requirement in a housing development comprising a plurality of power consumers and a common power supply that is subject to a temporally variable tariff. A prediction of the power consumption of the housing development for a future time period is continuously updated, each prediction of the power consumption using data of detected load profiles of the housing development in the time period having, a current prediction for the future time period being calculated on the basis of a previous prediction and a previously detected load profile The predictions and the detected load profiles are assigned characteristic variables, the predictions of which are known and which have an influence on the load profiles, and a current prediction for the future time period being calculated on the basis of a previous prediction and a previously detected load profile, each having the same characteristic variables.

Abstract: The present invention provides a power management method and a power management device for a residential complex comprising one or more residential units or for an urban district, comprising a shared connection via which self-supplied electricity from a time-variable generation capacity is supplied to the mains power network from a decentralised self-supplied-electricity generation apparatus, and via which mains electricity is supplied to the residential complex or the urban district from the mains power network.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for predicting the temporal course of a power requirement in a housing development comprising one or a plurality of housing units each comprising a plurality of power consumers, the housing development having a common power supply that is subject to a temporally variable tariff.