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ELMAS: a one-year dataset of hourly electrical load profiles from 424 French industrial and tertiary sectors
Kevin Bellinguer1, Robin Girard2, Alexis Bocquet3
1MINES Paris, PSL University, Centre PERSEE - Centre for Processes, Renewable Energies and Energy Systems, Sophia Antipolis, 06904, Paris, France. kevin.bellinguer@minesparis.psl.eu.
Abstract:
The combination of ongoing urban expansion and electrification of uses challenges the power grid. In such a context, information regarding customers' consumption is vital to assess the expected load at strategic nodes over time, and to guide power system planning strategies. Comprehensive household consumption databases are widely available today thanks to the roll-out of smart meters, while the consumption of tertiary premises is seldom shared mainly due to privacy concerns. To fill this gap, the French main distribution system operator, Enedis, commissioned Mines Paris to derive load profiles of industrial and tertiary sectors for its prospective tools. The ELMAS dataset is an open dataset of 18 electricity load profiles derived from hourly consumption time series collected continuously over one year from a total of 55,730 customers. These customers are divided into 424 fields of activity, and three levels of capacity subscription. A clustering approach is employed to gather activities sharing similar temporal patterns, before averaging the associated time series to ensure anonymity.
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