Clustering Based Approach for Customers’ Classification from Electrical Distribution Systems

The paper presents a clustering based approach for consumers’ classification in representative categories characterized by typical load profiles. For determination of the consumption categories, every customer must be characterized by the following primary information: daily (monthly) energy consumption, average load and peak load. The used database contains the daily load curves corresponding to the small customers from a rural distribution system from Romania. The obtained results it demonstrated that the proposed approach can be used with the success in building specific tariff structures of the customers or in the optimal operation and planning of distribution systems.