Great Britain (GB) Domestic Electricity Usage by Low Carbon Technology by Season
Authors/Creators
- 1. Octopus Energy Centre for Net Zero
Description
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This dataset contains 3 aggregate datasets from the electricity smart meter data of over 25,000 customers in Great Britain (GB) from March 2021 - March 2022.
For each consumer, we know (via a survey) what low carbon technologies (LCTs) they own. The potential LCT options are: Solar PV, Heat Pump (Air Source, or Ground Source), Electric Vehicle, Battery, Electric Storage Heaters.
For simplicity, this dataset contains only customers with one type of LCT (with the exception of Solar PV, where we include Solar PV + Battery customers as is common in GB). We do not include customers with multiple LCTs (for example home battery + EV)
We include quantiles of usage for each half hour (the "profile") for each type of LCT ownership "archetype", both overall (when season=None) and by season. As is common in the literature, we normalise by the square meterage of the house using open EPC data in GB (https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/) to get the watt hours per square meter. You can also find the raw, unnormalised, kwh values by quantile in this release. These two datasets have the quantiles for each half hour period. In addition, we release the daily quantiles of electricity consumption, in kwh per square meterage, by LCT type.
In summary the data we are releasing, aggregated over 25,000 customers over 1 year of usage from March 2021 - March 2020 is:
- daily_elec_consumption_quantiles_by_lct_ownership.csv - The daily quantiles of usage [kWh/m2] by LCT
- lct_elec_consumption_profiles.csv - The half hourly quantiles of usage [Wh/m2] by LCT by season
- lct_elec_consumption_profiles_kwh.csv - The half hourly quantiles of usage [kWh] by LCT by season
We believe this data will be useful for modelling efforts, as customers with different types of LCTs use energy at different times of the day, and by different amounts daily. By releasing this data openly, we hope forecasting scenarios for the future energy system are more accurate. We have a supporting blog post on our website at https://www.centrefornetzero.org/res/lessons-from-early-adopters-electricity-consumption-profiles/.