PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide power management apparatus capable of properly suppressing a network delay, communication control apparatus, and a power management method.SOLUTION: Power management apparatus 10 that controls a plurality of appliances includes a transmission section 12 that transmits a protection address designation message specifying a destination address that should not be deleted from a routing table among destination addresses contained in the routing table for at least one appliance among the plurality of appliances including a router function.