Projects:2019s2-25202 Electricity Consumers' Greenness: A Measure to Quantify Electricity Consumers' Sustainability and Efficiency

Abstract here

Introduction

Quantifying the energy-efficiency of a building using electricity consumption data has been a research question for many years. These efforts were based on identifying the source of inefficiencies in the building structure or the device itself. However, even in a highly efficient building, consumers with their unique behaviours can degrade the efficiency of energy usage. One example is using an appliance at on-peak hours or setting the HVAC setpoint to an unreasonable level during the same time. As the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is becoming widespread, more information about individual appliance's consumption is available. Therefore, it is time to pinpoint the inefficiency in the consumers' behaviours. In this project, we intend to introduce the "Greenness" factor for a household by first designing a "Greenness" map for every appliance in a household based on their physical and operational limitations, and relevant exogenous factors such as ambient temperature, type of day, the hour of the day, season, etc. Then, we quantify the "Greenness" of a household electricity consumption according to the data for every appliance. In the next step, we develop an aggregate "Greenness" map for every day of every year of the historical data to represent the overall efficiency of the consumer's behaviour in a household. Finally, we convert the aggregate "Greenness" map to a single "Greenness" factor for the household.

Project team

Project students

• Usman Khan
• Farrukh Ahsan
• Bo Yin

Supervisors

• Ali Pourmousavi Kani

Advisors

• Nesimi Ertugral

Objectives

Set of objectives

References

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