Title :
Clients segmentation according to their domestic energy consumption by the use of self-organizing maps
Author :
Sánchez, Ignacio Benítez ; Espinós, Ignacio Delgado ; Sarrión, Laura Moreno ; López, Alfredo Quijano ; Burgos, Isabel Navalon
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electr., Valencia, Spain
Abstract :
The CENIT research project GAD (Demand Active Management), partly supported by the Spanish government, has as its objective the demand side management (DSM) of domestic end-users, smoothing the peaks of energy demand, therefore enhancing the conditions of transport and distribution networks and the quality of energy delivery and service. One of the objectives in the development of the project is the classification of users according to their patterns of daily energy load profiles. Based on daily hour measures from a sample of residential users, a self-organizing map (SOM) has been trained to classify users according to a specific number of resulting patterns of daily load profiles, attached to a number of indices that define the users´ energy consumption. The so-trained SOM classifier allows the characterization of future users based on their load profiles, thus estimating their energy consumption habits and potentially manageable energy.
Keywords :
demand side management; distribution networks; pattern classification; power engineering computing; quality of service; self-organising feature maps; CENIT research project; Demand Active Management; GAD project; SOM classifier; Spanish government; client segmentation; daily energy load profile classification; demand side management; distribution network; domestic end-user; domestic energy consumption; energy consumption habit; energy delivery quality; energy demand peak smoothing; quality of service; self-organizing map; transport network; Data mining; Energy consumption; Energy management; Energy measurement; Knowledge management; Pattern recognition; Project management; Quality management; Self organizing feature maps; Smoothing methods; Classification; Demand Side Management; Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD); Pattern recognition; Self-Organizing Maps (SOM);
Conference_Titel :
Energy Market, 2009. EEM 2009. 6th International Conference on the European
Conference_Location :
Leuven
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4455-7
DOI :
10.1109/EEM.2009.5207172