A business management method with interaction between an electrical energy supplier and a plurality of customer energy consumers includes the consumers providing respective electricity load profiles to the energy supplier. The method also includes the energy supplier aggregating the respective projected electricity load profiles. The method further includes the energy supplier making decisions based on the respective projected electricity load profiles on any of the consumers bidding on additional power, offering excess power on energy exchanges, and offering specials discounts to favored consumers. The method is likewise applicable to other commodities such as a water supply, fuel gas supply, or the like.
Reference is hereby made to copending Provisional Application No. 60/290,168 filed May 10, 2001, entitled INTEGRATED ENERGY E-BUSINESS SERVICES in the name of Spool et al., and of which priority is claimed and whereof the disclosure is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
Reference is made to the following patent applications by the same inventors as the present application and being filed on the same date as the present application and whereof the disclosure is hereby incorporated herein by reference: BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DEREGULATED ELECTRIC POWER MARKET USING COOPERATIVELY PRODUCED ESTIMATES; BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DEREGULATED ELECTRIC POWER MARKET USING SUPPLIERS' SPECIAL OFFERS; BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DEREGULATED ELECTRIC POWER MARKET USING CONSUMER SELECTED SPECIAL OFFERS; BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DEREGULATED ELECTRIC POWER MARKET IN A SHORTAGE SITUATION; BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DEREGULATED ELECTRIC POWER MARKET USING CONSUMER SITE ANOMALY DETECTION; BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DEREGULATED ELECTRIC POWER MARKET USING ONLINE DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES; BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DEREGULATED ELECTRIC POWER MARKET USING CUSTOMER CIRCLES AGGREGATION; BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DEREGULATED ELECTRIC POWER MARKET WITH SHARING OF SUPPLY CHAIN DATA; and BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DEREGULATED ELECTRIC POWER MARKET USING WORKSPACE PORTALS.
