Commercial Building Tenant Energy Usage Aggregation and Privacy

Technical Report · Fri Oct 31 04:00:00 EDT 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1163820· OSTI ID:1163820

Livingston, Olga V.; Pulsipher, Trenton C.; Anderson, David M.; Wang, Na

A growing number of building owners are benchmarking their building energy use. This requires the building owner to acquire monthly whole-building energy usage information, which can be challenging for buildings in which individual tenants have their own utility meters and accounts with the utility. Some utilities and utility regulators have turned to aggregation of customer energy use data (CEUD) as a way to give building owners whole-building energy usage data while protecting customer privacy. Meter profile aggregation adds a layer of protection that decreases the risk of revealing CEUD as the number of meters aggregated increases. The report statistically characterizes the similarity between individual energy usage patterns and whole-building totals at various levels of meter aggregation.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1163820
• Report Number(s): PNNL-23786; BT0201000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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