POWER CONTROL DEVICE, POWER CONTROL SYSTEM, AND POWER CONTROL METHOD

THE HEMS 500 controls equipment provided in a consumer 10. The HEMS 500 comprises a transceiver unit 510 that transmits a command to instruct processing executed by the equipment and a control unit 530 that acquires start time information indicating a time from when the equipment receives the command to when the equipment starts processing according to the command from the equipment and controls the equipment based on the acquired start time information.