Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity
Changes in the UK electricity market, particularly with the roll out of smart meters, will provide greatly increased opportunities for initiatives intended to change households' electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall system. Users show differences in their regular behaviours...
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| author | Dent, Ian Craig, Tony Aickelin, Uwe Rodden, Tom |
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| description | Changes in the UK electricity market, particularly with the roll out of smart meters, will provide greatly increased opportunities for initiatives intended to change households' electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall system. Users show differences in their regular behaviours and clustering households into similar groupings based on this variability provides for efficient targeting of initiatives. Those people who are stuck into a regular pattern of activity may be the least receptive to an initiative to change behaviour. A sample of 180 households from the UK are clustered into four groups as an initial test of the concept and useful, actionable groupings are found. |
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| spelling | nottingham-341272020-05-04T16:34:28Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34127/ Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity Dent, Ian Craig, Tony Aickelin, Uwe Rodden, Tom Changes in the UK electricity market, particularly with the roll out of smart meters, will provide greatly increased opportunities for initiatives intended to change households' electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall system. Users show differences in their regular behaviours and clustering households into similar groupings based on this variability provides for efficient targeting of initiatives. Those people who are stuck into a regular pattern of activity may be the least receptive to an initiative to change behaviour. A sample of 180 households from the UK are clustered into four groups as an initial test of the concept and useful, actionable groupings are found. 2012-10-25 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Dent, Ian, Craig, Tony, Aickelin, Uwe and Rodden, Tom (2012) Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity. In: Digital Futures 2012: the Third Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference, 23-25 Oct 2012, Aberdeen, UK. Electricity Load Profiles Clustering Flexibility Demand Side Management http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/digitalfutures/sites/default/files/digitalfutures2012papers/Papers/Session4BDataMiningMachineLearning/Dent_etal_ClusteringHouseholds.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Electricity Load Profiles Clustering Flexibility Demand Side Management Dent, Ian Craig, Tony Aickelin, Uwe Rodden, Tom Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity |
| title | Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity |
| title_full | Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity |
| title_fullStr | Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity |
| title_short | Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity |
| title_sort | finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity |
| topic | Electricity Load Profiles Clustering Flexibility Demand Side Management |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34127/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34127/ |