Evaluation of Household Electricity Savings. Analysis of Household Electricity Demand Profile and User Activities

Energy Procedia 2015
Ilze Laicāne, Dagnija Blumberga, Andra Blumberga, Marika Rošā

To achieve a reduction in electricity consumption it is vital to have actual information about household electricity use. It allows to draw user behaviour profile based on household electricity demand for certain time of the day. Activities involving the use of electricity for certain purposes, time of use survey and smart metering data of a four people family were analysed in this study. Household energy efficiency performance till 2020 was evaluated based on increase of equipment energy efficiency driven by technological progress. The results of energy efficiency evaluation for particular household shows that 1219 kWh savings can be achieved due to improvements of energy performance of some mostly used appliances until 2020 (i.e., reduction in electricity consumption of 13% if compared to present scenario). However, the results imply that user behaviour change is also important to implement the measures associated with energy efficiency improvements in households.

Keywords
Smart meters; household electricity consumption; user behavior; demand side management
DOI
10.1016/j.egypro.2015.06.041
Hyperlink
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610215007316

Laicāne, I., Blumberga, D., Blumberga, A., Rošā, M. Evaluation of Household Electricity Savings. Analysis of Household Electricity Demand Profile and User Activities. Energy Procedia, 2015, Vol.72, pp.285-292. ISSN 1876-6102. Available from: doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2015.06.041

Publication language
English (en)