AEIT International Annual Conference - AEIT 2017, Cagliari (Italy). 20-22 September 2017
Summary:
This paper proposes a methodology for finding typical load profiles for residential customers by using clustering techniques. Such task is particularly challenging due to the great diversity of electricity use by residential customers. Specific characteristics of this kind of customers, as number of inhabitants or house surface, may help the clustering, but such features are often, maybe always, unknowable. In the paper, geographic information of customers, always known, has been used as first discriminant for grouping homogeneous daily profiles. Then, different clustering algorithms have been applied to a database of real customers and compared to verify their effectiveness. Finally, to validate the proposed approach ad hoc validation tests has been performed by considering a new database not used for clustering.
Keywords: residential customers; load profiles; clustering techniques.
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.23919/AEIT.2017.8240518
Published in AEIT 2017, pp: 1-6, ISBN: 978-1-5386-1058-9
Publication date: 2017-09-20.
Citation:
N. Natale, F. Pilo, G. Pisano, M. Troncia, F. Bignucolo, M. Coppo, N. Pesavento, R. Turri, Assessment of typical residential customers load profiles by using clustering techniques, AEIT International Annual Conference - AEIT 2017, Cagliari (Italy). 20-22 September 2017. In: AEIT 2017: Conference proceedings, ISBN: 978-1-5386-1058-9
