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BuildingsBench: A Large-Scale Dataset of 900K Buildings and Benchmark for Short-Term Load Forecasting
Abstract
The BuildingsBench datasets consist of: - Buildings-900K: A large-scale dataset of 900K buildings for pretraining models on the task of short-term load forecasting (STLF). Buildings-900K is statistically representative of the entire U.S. building stock. - 7 real residential and commercial building datasets for benchmarking two downstream tasks evaluating generalization: zero-shot STLF and transfer learning for STLF. Buildings-900K can be used for pretraining models on day-ahead STLF for residential and commercial buildings. The specific gap it fills is the lack of large-scale and diverse time series datasets of sufficient size for studying pretraining and finetuning with scalable machine learning models. Buildings-900K consists of synthetically generated energy consumption time series. It is derived from the NREL End-Use Load Profiles (EULP) dataset (see link to this database in the links further below). However, the EULP was not originally developed for the purpose of STLF. Rather, it was developed to "...help electric utilities, grid operators, manufacturers, government entities, and research organizations make critical decisions about prioritizing research and development, utility resource and distribution system planning, and state and local energy planning and regulation." Similar to the EULP, Buildings-900K is a collection of Parquet files and it follows nearly the same Parquet dataset organization asmore »
- Authors:
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- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- 5859
- Research Org.:
- DOE Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI); National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Multiple Programs (EE)
- Collaborations:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Subject:
- Array; EULP; STLF; benchmark; buildings; commercial; dataset; deep learning; end use load profiles; energy; load forecasting; machine learning; power; pretraining; processed data; residential; short-term; transfer learning
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1986147
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.25984/1986147
Citation Formats
Emami, Patrick, and Graf, Peter. BuildingsBench: A Large-Scale Dataset of 900K Buildings and Benchmark for Short-Term Load Forecasting. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.25984/1986147.
Emami, Patrick, & Graf, Peter. BuildingsBench: A Large-Scale Dataset of 900K Buildings and Benchmark for Short-Term Load Forecasting. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.25984/1986147
Emami, Patrick, and Graf, Peter. 2018.
"BuildingsBench: A Large-Scale Dataset of 900K Buildings and Benchmark for Short-Term Load Forecasting". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.25984/1986147. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1986147. Pub date:Sun Dec 30 23:00:00 EST 2018
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title = {BuildingsBench: A Large-Scale Dataset of 900K Buildings and Benchmark for Short-Term Load Forecasting},
author = {Emami, Patrick and Graf, Peter},
abstractNote = {The BuildingsBench datasets consist of: - Buildings-900K: A large-scale dataset of 900K buildings for pretraining models on the task of short-term load forecasting (STLF). Buildings-900K is statistically representative of the entire U.S. building stock. - 7 real residential and commercial building datasets for benchmarking two downstream tasks evaluating generalization: zero-shot STLF and transfer learning for STLF. Buildings-900K can be used for pretraining models on day-ahead STLF for residential and commercial buildings. The specific gap it fills is the lack of large-scale and diverse time series datasets of sufficient size for studying pretraining and finetuning with scalable machine learning models. Buildings-900K consists of synthetically generated energy consumption time series. It is derived from the NREL End-Use Load Profiles (EULP) dataset (see link to this database in the links further below). However, the EULP was not originally developed for the purpose of STLF. Rather, it was developed to "...help electric utilities, grid operators, manufacturers, government entities, and research organizations make critical decisions about prioritizing research and development, utility resource and distribution system planning, and state and local energy planning and regulation." Similar to the EULP, Buildings-900K is a collection of Parquet files and it follows nearly the same Parquet dataset organization as the EULP. As it only contains a single energy consumption time series per building, it is much smaller (~110 GB). BuildingsBench also provides an evaluation benchmark that is a collection of various open source residential and commercial real building energy consumption datasets. The evaluation datasets, which are provided alongside Buildings-900K below, are collections of CSV files which contain annual energy consumption. The size of the evaluation datasets altogether is less than 1GB, and they are listed out below: 1. ElectricityLoadDiagrams20112014 2. Building Data Genome Project-2 3. Individual household electric power consumption (Sceaux) 4. Borealis 5. SMART 6. IDEAL 7. Low Carbon London A README file providing details about how the data is stored and describing the organization of the datasets can be found within each data lake version under BuildingsBench.},
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