A Method to Refine Electricity Consumption Data from Automatic Meter Reading Systems

Abstract

In this work data from an AMR system delivering consumption data on a daily basis with an aggregated electricity consumption post combined with a maximum peak load within the period has been utilized. The paper suggests a method to create individual hour based daily consumption profiles and to increase the knowledge of the aggregated consumption patterns over the day. As a validation the method has been applied on rearranged data from an AMR system providing hour based metering series to regenerate the same consumption series. Implementing the method can provide consumption series that can be used to increase the accuracy e.g. when forecasting the electricity consumption for individual customers. The created consumption series can also be a valuable resource when estimating aggregated hour based profiles for different areas using a bottom-up approach.