Benefits of big data analytics in Smart Metering, ADEPT, WICKED and beyond
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Benefits of big data analytics in Smart Metering,
ADEPT, WICKED and beyond
Prof David Wallom
Associate Professor and Associate Director - Innovation
2. Advanced Dynamic Energy Pricing and Tariffs (ADEPT)
• Objectives
– Understand the limitations that domestic consumers are willing to consider acceptable in terms of
dynamic pricing tariffs
– Investigate the relationship between dynamic electricity tariffs and power network characteristics,
– Design a scalable computational and data platform
• Turning data into actionable information
– Exploiting well known & developing innovative data mining techniques, predicting and classifying costs, determining
behaviour type and response to tariff changes and other inputs
3. Clustering domestic consumption using Dirichlet Process Mixture Model
• EC FP7 Dehams dataset (www.dehams.eu, UK & Bulgaria)
• Using a Bayesian method allows us to handle uncertainty within the data
set more easily than more traditional data mining methods
• Clustering defined by data not user
4. How complex can and should a dynamic energy tariff be?
Normalised daily
power demand
profiles for all
businesses by
sector
An illustration of the
differences between the tariffs
used and the typical variation
of the RT
Commercial consumption data thanks to OPUS Energy
22. Clustering domestic consumption using Dirichlet Process Mixture Model
• Using a Bayesian method allows us to handle uncertainty within the data
set more easily than more traditional data mining methods
• Clustering defined by data not user
23. DIET – Data Insights against Energy Theft
• ~£400M in theft per year
• £8 - £20 per property per year
• Key Smart Metering commercial
driver of reduction in human
interaction.
• 2 year Innovate UK
• British Gas(Lead), G4S & EDMI
• 300k meters per day, commercial
customers
• 48 half-hour kWh readings per day
• Training through confirmed theft
events
• How to scale to near real-time for
50M meters?
• ~50k potential theft triggers per day
• To use consumption and event data to identify energy theft
• Evaluate new methods outside of TRAS with view to
inject new ideas into the next TRAS review
• Investigate methods specifically to address smart
meters which can be facing different kind of
challenges
24. Conclusion
• Utilising analytics to gain understanding of drivers of energy consumption
within domestic and commercial customers requires;
– High quality data (low failure rate, we have seen the opposite)
– Detailed metadata available
• We are able to link business and domestic consumer behaviour to energy
consumption
– Meaningful questions to answer!
• Need to create new algorithms to cater for different and hitherto not well
utilised data sources.
– Link consumption and non-consumption time series data to provide analytic triggers
for a new use case which causes smart meter anxiety
25. Thank you
Questions?
With thanks to;
• Ramon Granell, Sarah Darby, Katy Janda, Russell Layberry, Peter
Grindrod, Malcolm Muculloch & Sue Bright
• Colin Axon, Ioana Pisica & Gary Taylor
• Opus Energy, M&S, Dixons Carphone, & British Gas
26. Publications
• Granell, Ramon; Axon, Colin; Janda, Kathryn B.; Wallom, David (2016): Does the London urban heat island affect
electricity consumption of small supermarkets?. figshare. https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3423130.v1
• Granell, R., Axon, C.J., Wallom, D.C.H. et al. “Power-use profile analysis of non-domestic consumers for electricity tariff
switching”, Energy Efficiency (2016) 9: 825. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12053-015-9404-9
• Granell, Ramon; Axon, Colin; Wallom, David (2016): Which British SMEs might benefit from electricity dynamic tariffs?.
figshare. https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3423139.v1
• R. Granell, C. J. Axon and D. C. H. Wallom, "Impacts of Raw Data Temporal Resolution Using Selected Clustering
Methods on Residential Electricity Load Profiles," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 3217-
3224, Nov. 2015. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2014.2377213
• R. Granell, C.J. Axon, D.C. H Wallom, “Clustering disaggregated load profiles using a Dirichlet process mixture model”,
Energy Convers Manag, 92 (2015), pp. 507–516
• Wallom, David; Granell, Ramon; Axon, Colin (2015): Feature extraction to characterise and cluster the energy demand
of UK retail premises. figshare., https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1541107.v1
• Granell, R.; Axon, C.J.; Wallom, D.C.H. Predicting winning and losing businesses when changing electricity tariffs. Appl.
Energy 2014, 133, 298–307.
• C. J. Axon et al., "Towards an understanding of dynamic energy pricing and tariffs," 2012 47th International Universities
Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), London, 2012, pp. 1-5. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/UPEC.2012.6398452
Notes de l'éditeur
Emergent behaviour that can be identified from such potentially complex systems
Cloud and/or cluster computing
High speed communications technology platforms
Large-scale learning machines
Emergent behaviour that can be identified from such potentially complex systems
Cloud and/or cluster computing
High speed communications technology platforms
Large-scale learning machines
Automated regular measurement and collection of energy consumption
Centralised recording, access and distribution to stakeholders
Accessible Metadata providing wider context