Conselvan, Francesca

Mascherbauer, Philipp

Harringer, Daniel

2023-12-20T11:11:18Z

2023-12-20T11:11:18Z

2023-02-17

<div class="csl-bib-body"> <div class="csl-entry">Conselvan, F., Mascherbauer, P., &#38; Harringer, D. (2023, February 17). <i>Neural network to generate synthetic building electrical load profiles</i> [Conference Presentation]. 13. Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung IEWT 2023, Wien, Austria. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/190510</div> </div>

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/190510

At our days, we can collect a considerable amount of data in the energy sector, but, due to privacy concerns, companies are unable to share costumer meter data for general research and analysis. Synthetic data provides a valid alternative to real data since they anonymise the data and maintain its original statistical information. This paper presents a real case scenario of the generation of circa 50 000 synthetic energy load profiles, addressing the following questions: 1. What are the exogenous variables of the load profiles, like building and vintage type that can be used to generate synthetic data? 2. What is the best fitting methodology to generate synthetic data for energy load profiles? 3. What are the limitations and the challenges in using the chosen methodology? This research is carried out in the framework of the Horizon Europe project MODERATE. In the preliminary results, we have analysed circa 50 000 annual electric load profiles, following the below methodology: 1. Data Standardisation. Each load profile is normalized by its annual peak load to make sure that different buildings are similar in magnitude. 2. Data Clustering. Load profiles vary a lot, even for the same building. So, load profiles are clustered to capture the key variables and characteristics. Different clustering methods are used and compared, specifically: - Hierarchical based: hierarchical clustering groups - Centroid base: k-means and agglomerative cluster, whose optimal value of clusters is determined with Elbow and Silhouette methods - Principal Component Analysis (PCA) - Density-based: DBSCAN and HBDScan 3. Synthetic data generation. We generate the synthetic data using the neural network algorithm GANs (Generative Adversial Networks), which consists of two neural networks, a generator and a discriminator, contest with each other. The first step is to select the optimal number of clusters, which is 10 for k-means and 5 for PCA. Some clusters demonstrate a clear working day pattern with energy usage increase in the morning and decrease in the late afternoon. The second step is to evaluate the accuracy of the generator and the discriminator, which we aspect to increase with the increase of the training epochs. We aspect that at the beginning of the training the accuracy of the discriminator is high, and it decreases with the training process going on, because the generator can generate load profiles that are more like the real ones. We aim to determine the number of the epochs that benchmark the accuracy of the generator and the challenge for the discriminator to discern fake from real load profiles.

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Synthetic data

load profiles

smart meter data

Neural network to generate synthetic building electrical load profiles

Presentation

Vortrag

e-think energy research, Austria

TU Wien, Austria

Conference Presentation

E1

C6

Energy Active Buildings, Settlements and Spatial Infrastructures

Modeling and Simulation

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50

E370-03 - Forschungsbereich Energiewirtschaft und Energieeffizienz

0000-0001-7733-8462

0000-0002-5736-5620

13. Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung IEWT 2023

Moderate

101069834

15-02-2023

17-02-2023

On Site

Event for scientific audience

Wien

AT

TU Wien

Conselvan, Francesca

Single Track

Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Informationstechnik

2020

100

none

no Fulltext

http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cp

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Publications

conference paper not in proceedings

e-think energy research (Vienna, AT)

E370-03 - Forschungsbereich Energiewirtschaft und Energieeffizienz

TU Wien

0000-0001-7733-8462

0000-0002-5736-5620

E370 - Institut für Energiesysteme und Elektrische Antriebe