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TITLE: DISTRIBUTION STANDARD PART 1: PLANNING GUIDELINES SECTION 23: BOOK ELECTRIFICATION LOAD FORECASTING
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............................ I A Ferguson
Contents
Page 1 Introduction............................................................................................................................... 2 Domestic load........................................................................................................................... 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 The nature of domestic load ............................................................................................. The After Diversity Demand (ADD) .................................................................................. Peak load and ADMD ....................................................................................................... The Beta distribution ........................................................................................................ Consumption classification and load denisties ................................................................ 3 3 3 4 5 8 12 13 13 14 14 14 14 15
3 Load forecasting ADMD estimation....................................................................................... 3.1 Measurment...................................................................................................................... 3.2 Energy load factor method ............................................................................................... 3.3 Heman-Beta method......................................................................................................... 4 Load forecasting long range .................................................................................................. 4.1 Background....................................................................................................................... 4.2 Forecasting techniques .................................................................................................... Figures and Tables
Figure 1: The load profile for a low-income consumer in Durban. Source: NRS LR Project, logger UA114, Umgaga, 98/6/18. ................................................................................................................... 3 Figure 2: ADD profile vs. single consumer profile. NRS LR Project, Umgaga, 98/6/18...............
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Figure 3: Household demand at the peak vs. Peak household demand. Source: Walmer dunes, NRS LR Project 1997 ............................................................................................................................ 7 Figure 4: Distirbution of wealthy consumers at time of the peak ................................................. Figure 5: Derivation of Parameters for Beta distribution of domestic consumer loads................ Figure 6: Load Growth Curves ..................................................................................................... Table 1: Factors affecting size of a demand peak ...................................................................... Table 2: Recommended Herman-Beta parameters for various consumer-types ....................... Table 3: Consumption class ........................................................................................................ Table 4: Domestic Load Density Classifications ......................................................................... 8 9 18 6 11 13 14
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1 Introduction
This section describes the nature of residential domestic load and simple methods to estimate or forecast the anticipated load. Two main points are discussed, General background and Load forecasting A) General background & Domestic load A general discussion regarding household load is presented, followed by a definition of ADMD and load densities. B) Load Forecasting Load forecasting include methods to determine ADMD and long range ADMD growth
2 Domestic load
2.1 The nature of domestic load
2.1.1 The household load profile
A typical household load profile is shown below. The cycling of a thermostatically controlled device (probably a fridge in this case) is apparent during the night hours. There are three periods of activity, which are typical of domestic consumers: Morning, noon, evening, and the sleeping period.
15 10 5 0 0:00
6:00
18:00
0:00
Figure 1: The load profile for a low-income consumer in Durban. Source: NRS LR Project, logger UA1-4, Umgaga, 98/6/18.
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b) the chance that any number of appliance/s will be in use at a particular time Appliance ownership is strongly related to wealth levels. Upmarket consumers tend to possess large appliances which are thermostatically controlled. The use of these appliances is not under conscious human control, and their presence impacts greatly on the household load. Load surveys have shown that consumers in low-income townships (i.e. semi-formal and informal shack-dweller) do not possess such fundamental capacity and rarely develop more than 20A of current.
14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 0:00
6:00
12:00
Time of day
18:00
0:00
Consumer
Figure 2: ADD profile vs. single consumer profile. NRS LR Project, Umgaga, 98/6/18.
The ADD profile shown represents the sum of individual load tendencies of this entire community. However, whilst the ADD profile is a fair representation of the tendencies, it does not represent individual consumer differences are at any particular time.
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ADMD( N ) =
MD( N ) N
This value generally decreases to an approximate constant value for 1000 or more customers and has therefore been chosen as a convenient reference value, since the Diversity Factor generally does not increase significantly beyond 1000 customers.
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Effect Wealth is associated with appliance ownership. This raises the demand of a house. Big appliances tend to overlap between houses.
Individuals or groups in communities that tend do things at the same time tend to generate higher peak loads by correlation. Hostel dwellers tend to have breakfast at the same time. However, they tend to be poor, so the house loads are limited. Thus the value of their peak is suppressed to some extent. Local traditions, like the Cape Sunday Lunch can have a major effect upon peaks. This is a good example of behaviour which is highly correlated at a time-of-day and day-of-week. Certain very popular television programmes have similar effects in wealthy communities, although these are rather transient.
Climatic severity Bad weather causes house loads to be bigger, and more correlated. These two factors give rise to higher loads. Bad weather is worst where low temperature correlates to high rainfall. Network events (Voltage drop, DSM and power failure/restore) Voltage drop: Most appliances are thermostatically controlled. Therefore, lowered voltage would tend to increase their correlation. This is offset by reduced consumption because of lowered voltage. For all practical purposes groups of consumers act like constant current loads. They are voltage invariant. Cold-load-pickup: Cold-load-pickup following a general power failure causes very high coincidence. House loads are high, and are considerably correlated. DSM: Demand-side management is an example of intentional cold load pick up where only certain appliances are disconnected. Generally, the reconnected load is highly correlated, and its aggregate effect may be as large as the total connected load of the controlled appliance. Current-limiting Mild current-limiting (i.e. 60-80 A in a medium income area) tends to limit the upper demand that individual households can take. It does not affect correlation, and so has a very small limiting effect upon ADMD. Significant current-limiting: Will only limit demand if it is an effective constraint (i.e. 2.5 A in a rich area). Severe current limiting affects the choice of appliances that consumers would acquire, if they had a choice. In general, therefore it limits the potential household demand, but does not affect the coincidence of demands++. Table 1: Factors affecting size of a demand peak
++ Latest research has not shown currentlimiting is not statistically significant in the determination of level of ADMD.
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The difference between household demand at the peak and Peak household demand is merely coincidence between households.
Figure 3: Household demand at the peak vs. Peak household demand. Source: Walmer dunes, NRS LR Project 1997.
Figure 3 illustrates an example of a poor community. The average household demand at the peak is 2.8A(0,6 kVA). The average of the peak household demands is 13.6A(3,1 kVA). The difference is a factor of 4-5 times the ADMD, typical of poorer areas. In areas where the circuit breaker limit constrains the demand, this ratio approaches a value of 2, and the ratio :- average-of-the-peak-household-demands to CB-size approaches unity. Also evident from Figure 3 is the dispersion of the consumers about the average value at the time of the peak. Most consumer loads are very small. Very few are big. No consumer takes more than 32.5 A at the time of the peak. The dispersion of consumers may be measured by their Standard deviation. A big standard deviation means the consumers are not very coincident (i.e. they are diverse). The shape of the dispersion at peak times is wealth-related. Normally poor consumers have a high standard deviation per unit of mean (i.e. greater than 1.0pu), whilst wealthy consumers are progressively lower and approach about 0.5pu. Because the dispersion of consumers at the time of the peak is an expression of coincidence/diversity, it is important to describe the shape of the distribution with reasonable accuracy. The Beta distribution is used to do this, and the Herman Beta method is used to estimate the voltage drops in a probabilistic manner. For simplicity, the Beta parameters used to describe the distribution are referred to as Herman-Beta parameters.
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b) the upper limit of the distribution is fixed at the circuit breaker size for the community. A typical Herman-Beta distribution for some very wealthy consumers is shown in Figure 4. The ADMD is in the region of 22A (5 kVA).
0.16 0.14 0.12 Probability [pu] 0.1 0.08 0.06 0.04 0.02 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Household current [A] Average value of consumers at this time is the ADMD (literally the line along which the curve balances)
The shape of any Beta distribution is defined by two parameters:- a and b. The whole curve is scaled by C, the circuit breaker size.
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The dispersion of consumers about the ADMD is 90% dependent upon the level of the ADMD. Figure 5: Derivation of Parameters for Beta distribution of domestic consumer loads
Wealth Time-electrified
90%
ADMD
90%
Std. deviation
CB size
The prediction-error (i.e. Standard error) of this model on the real field data was found to be less than 1.4A(0.32kVA) per household. Since field-data revealed such strong linkages between consumer loads and wealth/time-electrified, these two factors were used to generate estimates of demand for different distinct consumer classes, at different times after electrification, for new consumers (shown in Table 2).
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Description
RURAL SETTLEMENTS Income: Derived from pensions and subsistence farming, some work far away in the cities. Dwellings: Mainly traditional construction methods. Roads: Rather inaccessible, informal tracks. Water: Not Laid on. RURAL VILLAGES Income: Income derived from pensions & subsistence farming with some bread winners employed in near industrialised areas, with daily commuting. Dwellings: A mixture of modern building influence and traditional construction. Roads: A spectrum of formal tar to dirt road. Reasonable access. Water: Could be laid on. SQUATTER AREA Income: Derived from working formally I the city or town, with some income from informal jobs. Dwellings: Shacks Roads: Spectrum of formal to self-made. Reasonable access. Water: Not laid on. TOWNSHIP Income: Derived from working in cities and towns, pensions, informal employment. Dwellings: Old township houses. New government schemes, self-build etc. Roads: Formally laid out tar or dirt. Water: Laid per pipe into the house. URBAN SUBURB Income: Derived form working n cities & suburbs & some small business. Dwellings:Older brick houses poorly kept, with rough gardens. Servants quarters. Roads: Tarred. Water: Laid per pipe into house.
Alpha
Beta
11.5
12.5
20
0.52
1.33
60
0.94
8.63
60
1.15
6.78
60
1.24
3.5
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The method of conversion from ADMD and Std deviation to Herman-Beta parameters is merely a pair of formulas:
(C 2 2 ) a= C 2
Where: a,b = shape parameters of the Beta distribution. C = Circuit breaker limit in use. = ADMD [A]
(C )(C 2 2 ) b= C 2
= Standard deviation consumer loads at the ADMD [A]. These formulas are very easy to implement in a spreadsheet.
C > + 3 ; and
2) we have found a and b are nearly equal in such situations, and the ADMD tends to reach a maximum of about half of the Circuit breaker value (C).
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APPROXIMATE APPROX. KWH APPROX. KWH ANNUAL LOAD PER ANNUM PER MONTH FACTOR 30% - 45% > 19 000 > 1 600 25% - 35% 7 500 to 19 000 600 to 1 600 20% - 30% 3 000 to 7 500 250 to 600 15% - 25% 1 200 to 3 000 100 to 250 10% - 20% < 1 200 < 100
More investigatory work is needed in the area of correlating the annual energy consumption of consumers, the major classification characteristics of the consumers and the expected ADMD. Consumption classification can be achieved by doing appropriate market research programmes and economic studies for each area to be electrified. This type of work is usually done by consultants with the necessary marketing and engineering background.
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Secondly, determine the total area to be supplied, excluding open spaces such as parks etc. (in km ) Example: ADMD = 0,6 kVA DSPs = 1500 Area = 1 km
2
The table below can be used to select a township domestic density classification. DOMESTIC DENSITY CLASSIFICATION STAND SIZE (m )
2
AVE LOAD DENSITY (kW/km ) ( ADMDmin = 0.5 kVA ADMDmax = 4.5 kVA ) to 30 000 to 5 000 to 1 500 to 250
URBAN: 2 High Density(HD) < 1 000 m 2 2 Med. Density(MD) 1 000 m to 4 000 m 2 2 Low Density(LD) 4 000 m to 20 000 m 2 RURAL: > 20 000 m Table 4 : Domestic Load Density Classifications
Using the example above and according to the above table, a medium density urban township is described.
Practically the following steps are required: a) measure the maximum demand of the electrification area. Determine the time of day when the peak occurs. b) estimate the contribution of non-residential loads during the peak period. For example a school will only contribute a small % of its maximum load during evening peaks since the school would be not be occupied during these periods. non-residential load Clinic School Canteen / Shop Hospital Typical peak time co incidence factor 0.05 to 0.15 0.05 to 0.10 0.50 to 1.00 0.50 to 1.00
c) subtract the sum of these peak time contributions to obtain the maximum demand associated with residential load only.
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d) the total number of households or domestic supply points (DSPs) in the area is required to finally calculate the ADMD value. The ADMD is then simply:
ADMD = MDresidential DSPs
(provided that DSPs > 100 to allow for full diversity) If DSPs < 100 then adjust the ADMD as follows:
ADMD100 = ADMDDSPs DFDSPs (Refer to Section 28 clause 3.1 for more information) DF100
ADMD =
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c) household and community preferences and habits in using these appliances over peak periods; d) availability and preference of alternative energies; e) how cold the winter is; and f) water heating requirements & other lifestyle issues.
The growth and changes in these patterns needs to be forecasted over the economic life of the project so the appropriate phased upgrade investment decisions can be made. The customer's peak load characteristics are normally defined in terms of:a) an After Diversity Maximum Demand (ADMD) figure for one thousand or more customers; b) a diversity or coincidence factor graph or equation to depict how the ADMD increases as the sample of customers decreases down to one customer; and c) various unbalance correction factors or statistical parameters to account for customers taking a single phase supply which is not balanced in terms of time or physical connection to the LV distributor. The choice of design ADMD determines the masterplan layout from which the phased implementation plan is built.
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Load Growth
Load Limit 1600 1400 1200 20 A ED 60 A ED Total kVA
Load (kVA)
Year
Figure 6: Load Growth Curves
Other loads such as schools and clinics would typically have no load growth unless expansion of the facility is expected.