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With the electricity market liberalization, the distribution and retail companies are looking for better market strategies based on adequate information upon the consumption patterns of its electricity customers. A fair insight on the customers’ behavior will permit the definition of specific contract aspects based on the different consumption patterns. In this paper, we propose a KDD project applied to electricity consumption data from a utility client’s database. To form the different customers’ classes, and find a set of representative consumption patterns, a comparative analysis of the performance of the K-means, Kohonen Self-Organized Maps (SOM) and a Two-Level approach is made. Each customer class will be represented by its load profile obtained with the algorithm with best performance in the data set used.
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Rodrigues, F., Duarte, J., Figueiredo, V., Vale, Z., Cordeiro, M. (2003). A Comparative Analysis of Clustering Algorithms Applied to Load Profiling. In: Perner, P., Rosenfeld, A. (eds) Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition. MLDM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2734. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45065-3_7
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