slp: Standard Load Profile Data for Electricity from BDEW
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Standard Load Profile Data for Electricity from BDEW

Description

Data about representative, standard load profiles for electricity from the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e.V.) in a tidy format.

Usage

slp

Format

A data.frame with 9,504 observations and 5 variables:

profile_id: character, identifier for load profile, see 'Details'
period: character, one of 'summer', 'winter', 'transition'
day: character, one of 'saturday', 'sunday', 'workday'
timestamp: character, format: %H:%M
watt: numeric, electric power

Details

There are 96 x 1/4h measurements of electrical power for each combination of profile_id, period and day, which we refer to as the "standard load profile". This dataset results from an analysis of 1,209 load profiles of low-voltage electricity consumers in Germany, published in 1999.

In total there are 11 profile_id for three different customer groups:

Households: H0
Commercial: G0, G1, G2, G3, G4, G5, G6
Agriculture: L0, L1, L2

Call slp_info() to for more information and examples.

Period definitions:

summer: May 15 to September 14
winter: November 1 to March 20
transition: March 21 to May 14, and September 15 to October 31

Day definitions:

workday: Monday to Friday
saturday: Saturdays; Dec 24th and Dec 31th are considered a Saturdays too if they are not a Sunday
sunday: Sundays and all public holidays