Abstract: An agent is an information processing apparatus that puts in a bid to allow a vehicle to conduct transaction of power reception/provision through a transaction market server. In the event of nonfulfillment of transaction which means that the vehicle does not conduct transaction of power reception/provision, the transaction market server performs penalty processing for imposing a penalty on a user of the vehicle. The agent includes a bid processing unit and an indicator value calculator. The bid processing unit is configured to put in a bid to the transaction market server. The indicator value calculator calculates an indicator value that represents an extent of the penalty imposed on the user in the penalty processing. When the indicator value reaches a threshold value, the bid processing unit suspends a bid.

Abstract: An automatic bidding system includes a vehicle agent (a computer). A vehicle agent includes a bidding agent (a bidding unit) that places an automatic bid for power trading related to electric power of a user in accordance with an automatic bidding algorithm, and an information collection agent (an information collection unit) that acquires user information indicating a preference of the user. The bidding agent is configured to set a parameter of the automatic bidding algorithm using the user information.

Abstract: A power transaction market includes a first individual market and a second individual market. The first individual market is configured to implement transactions of electric power between power resources in a normal state of the power system. The second individual market is configured to implement transactions of electric power between the power resources in an emergency state in which supply of electric power from the power system is stopped. A management device that manages transactions of electric power between the power resources is configured to impose a penalty on a participant who does not implement a contract for a transaction of electric power in each of the first and second individual markets. The management device is configured to set the penalty in the second individual market to a higher value than the penalty in the first individual market.

Abstract: A server device includes a processor and a memory storing a program executed by the processor. The processor is configured to accept a tender for a transaction of electricity transfer in a parking lot, contract the transaction of electricity transfer corresponding to the tender, and perform charge control for charging at least one vehicle out of a plurality of vehicles located in the parking lot, the at least one vehicle having placed the tender.

Abstract: A market electric power price predicting unit predicts a trading price of electric power traded in a P2P electric power trading market. The trading price includes a price of renewable energy electric power and a price of non-renewable energy electric power. A renewable energy index setting unit sets a renewable energy index indicating a degree of the renewable energy electric power in electric power purchased in the P2P electric power trading market. A trading price setting unit sets a desired trading price in an electric power trading plan from a prediction result of the trading price of the electric power and the renewable energy index. A trading plan creating unit creates the electric power trading plan based on the desired trading price.

Abstract: In a power transaction management server, a registration unit receives power transaction information including positional information of a corresponding charging/discharging facility and tender conditions for a transaction of electric power and registers the received power transaction information in a storage device for each individual transaction market. An input unit receives information of a mobile object participating in a power transaction market. The information of the mobile object includes information indicating a geographical range in which the mobile object is able to supply or receive electric power. A setting unit sets retrieval conditions based on the information of the mobile object. A retrieval unit retrieves an individual transaction market matching the retrieval conditions out of a plurality of individual transaction markets. A provision unit provides the power transaction information in the individual transaction market matching the retrieval conditions.

Abstract: A control device is connected to power loads installed in a consumer facility so as to be able to communicate with the power loads. The control device includes: a control unit; and a display unit. The control unit determines the power loads and predicted power consumption when the power loads are used, determines at least one usable power load out of the power loads based on a remaining amount of available electric power in the consumer facility and the predicted power consumption, displays the usable power load on the display unit such that the usable power load is selectable, and controls use of the selected power load.

Abstract: An information processing method to be carried out by a terminal that is configured to communicate with an electronic device, is provided. The electronic device may be configured to manage information related to a vehicle. The information processing method may include: receiving vehicle usage fee information related to a vehicle usage fee for the vehicle from the electronic device, through a communication interface of the terminal, the vehicle usage fee being based on an advertisement that is displayed on a display device of the vehicle; and displaying a first display that is based on the vehicle usage fee information, in a display area of the terminal.

Abstract: A server device includes a processor and a memory for storing a program executed by the processor. A plurality of units includes a first unit, a second unit, and a third unit. The processor accepts a bid of the second unit regarding a transaction for electric power transfer with the first unit, and executes a contract process for causing the third unit to perform the electric power transfer with the first unit, when the second unit does not perform the electric power transfer with the first unit at a scheduled time of the electric power transfer.

Abstract: A market server stores participant information of each of participants in a power trading market, the participant information includes a participant ID that specifies the participant and participant evaluation information associated with the participant ID and set based on a trading history of the participant, and when the participant evaluation information satisfies a predetermined condition, the market server permits the participant specified by the participant ID associated with the participant evaluation information to participate in the power trading market.

Abstract: A market server receives a second request signal for requesting reception-supply adjustment of a first amount of power from a CEMS server and sends an invitation signal to a plurality of agent devices. The market server receives a bid signal showing bid conditions for a power buying or selling transaction of a second amount of power, smaller than the first amount of power, from at least one or more agent devices that have determined the bid conditions among the plurality of agent devices, and accepts bids by the at least one or more agent devices when acceptance conditions are met.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control section. The control section predicts an amount of electricity demanded for charging of vehicles that a plurality of users use, respectively, and determines a time slot in which the amount of electricity demanded exceeds a threshold value, and when the control section determines that one user of the plurality of users will refrain from use of the relevant vehicle on the following day, makes charging of the one user's vehicle wait in the time slot and provides an incentive to the one user.

Abstract: A server device includes a communication unit and a control unit that send and receives information to and from another device via the communication unit. The control unit receives, from a plurality of terminal devices, information indicating a boarding point at which a user of each of the terminal devices desires to board a vehicle, sends, to the vehicle, information for causing the vehicle to travel along a route via a nearby region of each of a plurality of the boarding points while satisfying a predetermined condition, and notifies the terminal devices of the route.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a control section that acquires itinerary information indicating a route on which a vehicle travels, the route including a departure point, a destination, and a waypoint that enables charging of the vehicle, and a first departure time for the vehicle to depart from the departure point, and that based on the itinerary information, sets a second departure time resulting from the first departure time being modified such that a time of arrival of the vehicle at the waypoint becomes a predetermined time.

Abstract: A plurality of exciters that outputs sound in a predetermined frequency band and a plurality of piezoelectric speakers that outputs sound in a frequency band higher than those of the exciters are provided, in which each of the plurality of exciters and the plurality of piezoelectric speakers is arranged in a space between an outer panel of a vehicle body and an interior member or on an inner surface side of the interior member, vibration generated in each of the exciters and the piezoelectric speakers is transmitted to the interior member, and a crossover frequency exists between a high range side in an output band of the exciters and a low range side in an output band of the piezoelectric speakers.

Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer-readable mediums for displaying content by a terminal are provided. The control method including: receiving, via a communication device of the terminal, first content data; displaying, in at least a display region of a display of the terminal, first information which is a portion of first content information that is based on the first content data; displaying, in the display region, second content information superimposed on at least a portion of the first information, the second content information at least partially including a transparent region; based on a first input on the display region performed by a user of the terminal, moving, by a controller of the terminal, at least a portion of the transparent region of the second content information in the display region; and based on the first input, moving, by the controller, the first information in the display region.

Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer-readable mediums for displaying content by a terminal in a display region having a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction are provided.

Abstract: A control device is connected to power loads installed in a consumer facility so as to be able to communicate with the power loads. The control device includes: a control unit; and a display unit. The control unit determines the power loads and predicted power consumption when the power loads are used, determines at least one usable power load out of the power loads based on a remaining amount of available electric power in the consumer facility and the predicted power consumption, displays the usable power load on the display unit such that the usable power load is selectable, and controls use of the selected power load.

Abstract: A control device that is communicably connected to a user terminal includes a controller, in which the controller is configured to set a virtual space, select one or more virtual spots from a plurality of candidate locations in the virtual space in accordance with associated values with a plurality of users belonging to a real specific region, install a virtual renewable energy power plant at the selected virtual spot in the virtual space, generate image information in which information regarding a real renewable energy power plant that is installed at a real spot corresponding to the selected virtual spot is displayed in association with the installed virtual renewable energy power plant, and transmit the image information to the user terminal.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: an interface configured to acquire information on a travel request from a user via a terminal device of the user and to acquire information on a distribution network configured to supply electric power to at least one transportation mode usable by the user; and a controlling portion configured to determine a transportation mode to be proposed to the user based on the information on the travel request from the user and the information on the distribution network and to output information on the transportation mode thus determined to the terminal device.