Demographic Information Incorporated Household Energy Consumption Analysis

Conference · Mon Sep 11 04:00:00 EDT 2023

OSTI ID:2000539

Wang, Jiyu; Zhu, Xiangqi; Mather, Barry

The high energy consumption from residential buildings provides them large potential to participate in demand response programs. To design appropriate demand response programs for residential buildings, it is important for electric utilities to know the energy consumption characteristics for different types of households so that utilities can send requests to the groups with a higher possibility to successfully respond. In this paper, we develop a load model to generate synthetic load profiles for different types of households incorporating demographical information including Current Population Survey data set and American Time Use Survey data set. The details of each data set and the details of the load models are presented. The synthetic household load profiles are generated by the load model and clustered into different groups based on state, age, number of occupants, income level, and city of the household. The average energy consumption characteristics for different groups of households are analyzed and compared, which will help electric utilities issue demand response signals to appropriate households.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 2000539
• Report Number(s): NREL/PR-5D00-86915; MainId:87690; UUID:64a93902-d4d9-4080-a554-58913b0b4ba5; MainAdminID:70549
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION,POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
building loads
demand response
energy consumption
household
load profile