Towards Data-Driven Electricity Management: Multi-Region Harmonized Data and Knowledge Graph

TL;DR

This paper introduces a harmonized multi-region dataset and a knowledge graph for household electricity consumption, enabling advanced machine learning applications and supporting data-driven policy and business decisions.

Contribution

It provides a standardized multi-region dataset and an RDF knowledge graph to facilitate large-scale analysis and interoperability in household electricity management.

Findings

Enables machine learning tasks like disaggregation and demand forecasting.

Supports semantic queries and interoperability with open knowledge bases.

Facilitates data-driven policy and business development in energy management.

Abstract

Due to growing population and technological advances, global electricity consumption, and consequently also CO2 emissions are increasing. The residential sector makes up 25% of global electricity consumption and has great potential to increase efficiency and reduce CO2 footprint without sacrificing comfort. However, a lack of uniform consumption data at the household level spanning multiple regions hinders large-scale studies and robust multi-region model development. This paper introduces a multi-region dataset compiled from publicly available sources and presented in a uniform format. This data enables machine learning tasks such as disaggregation, demand forecasting, appliance ON/OFF classification, etc. Furthermore, we develop an RDF knowledge graph that characterizes the electricity consumption of the households and contextualizes it with household related properties enabling semantic queries and interoperability with other open knowledge bases like Wikidata and DBpedia. This structured data can be utilized to inform various stakeholders towards data-driven policy and business development.