tinuously increasing and now accounts for about one third of the total electrical energy produced in Europe. Many individuals would be interested in saving energy (and thus also carbon dioxide as well as money), but they lack information on their consumption. Indeed, feedback on household electricity usage is typically only provided by monthly (or even annual) utility bills and therefore remain...

UK electricity market changes provide opportunities to alter households’ electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall electricity network. Work on clustering similar households has concentrated on daily load profiles and the variability in regular household behaviours has not been considered. Those households with most variability in regular activities may be the most receptive to ...

introduction: the relative costs of generating energy vary considerably depending on location. since hospital managers confront serious financial problems, they need to look for ways to use energy more efficiently. this study aimed to study the rate of energy use (water, gas and electricity) in a number of hospitals in isfahan from 1378 to 1382 and to compare the results with the available stan...

Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) is the remote collection of consumption data from customer’s utility meters over telecommunications, radio, power line and other links. AMR provides water, electric and gas utility−service companies the opportunities to streamline metering, billing and collection activities, increase operational efficiency and improve customer service. Utility company uses technolo...

The American electric power industry is undergoing dramatic changes in the way it is structured and regulated. As of June of 1998, state utility regulators, state legislatures or both in 17 states had made the decision to implement retail competition within 5 years or less. Competition in electricity markets and associated new opportunities for expanded interregional electricity trading could r...

This paper proposes an improved approach to our previous work [11]. [11] uses Stackelberg game to model the interactions between electricity retailer and its customers and genetic algorithms are used to obtain the Stackelberg Equilibrium (SE). In this paper, we propose a bi-level programming model by considering benefits of the electricity retailer (utility company) and its customer. In the upp...

The challenge of electricity distribution’s upgrade to incorporate new technologies is big, and electric utilities are mandated to work diligently on this agenda, thus making investments to ensure that current networks maintain their electricity supply commitments secure and reliable in face of disruptions and adverse environmental conditions from a variety of sources. The paper presents a new ...

In a Smart Grid, both the utility and the consumer can benefit from analytics based on electricity consumption data. In this abstract, we report our on-going research work on performing analytics for the USC campus micro-grid using electricity consumption and curtailment data available for campus buildings. Our goal is to provide the facility managers an insight into the changing electricity de...