Clustering Residential Electricity Consumption Data to Create Archetypes that Capture Household Behaviour in South Africa

Clustering is frequently used in the energy domain to identify dominant electricity consumption patterns of households, which can be used to construct customer archetypes for long term energy planning. Selecting a useful set of clusters however requires extensive experimentation and domain knowledge...

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Main Authors: Wiebke Toussaint, Deshendran Moodley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists 2020-12-01
Series:South African Computer Journal
Online Access:https://sacj.cs.uct.ac.za/index.php/sacj/article/view/845