Disaggregation of Heat Pump Load Profiles From Low-Resolution Smart Meter Data
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2023-11
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As the number of heat pumps installed in residential buildings increases, their energy-efficient operation becomes increasingly important to reduce costs and ensure the stability of the power grid. The deployment of smart electricity meters results in large amounts of smart meter data that can be used for heat pump optimization. However, sub-metering infrastructure to monitor heat pumps’ energy consumption is costly and rarely available in practice. Non-intrusive load monitoring addresses this issue and disaggregates appliance-level consumption from aggregate measurements. However, previous studies use high-resolution data of active and reactive power and do not focus on heat pumps. In this context, our study is the first to disaggregate heat pump load profiles using commonly available smart meter data with energy measurements at 15-minute resolution. We use a sliding-window approach to train and test deep learning models on a real-world data set of 363 Swiss households with heat pumps observed over a period of 8 years. Evaluating our approach with a 5-fold cross-validation, our best model achieves a mean R^2 score of 0.832 and an average RMSE of 0.169 kWh, which is similar to previous work that uses high-resolution measurements of active and reactive power. Our algorithms enable real-world applications to monitor the energy efficiency of heat pumps in operation and to estimate their flexibility for demand response programs.
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BuildSys '23: Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation
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228 - 231
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Association for Computing Machinery
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10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2023)
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Smart meter data; Smart Meter data analytics; Smart Grid; Non-intrusive Load Monitoring; HEAT PUMPS (ENERGY TECHNOLOGY); Load disaggregation; machine learning; energy efficiency; Buildings
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03681 - Fleisch, Elgar / Fleisch, Elgar