Mining smart meter data - case Finland

Abstract

Smart meters collect a lot of data on customer level electricity consumption and this, together with other data sources e.g. environmental information and public open data, provides an excellent basis for data mining. As a part of a recent smart grid project conducted in Finland, several different ways of mining smart meter data were studied. The project brought advances in customer classification and clustering, load profiling, spatial load analytics, behaviour change detection and load forecasting.