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Prosumer balancing analysis #164

Open JrtPec opened 8 years ago

JrtPec commented 8 years ago

Idea for a new analysis: prosumer balancing

We would like to encourage solar panel owners (prosumers) to try and consume as much of their production right when it is produced.

There could be a daily KPI that expresses the percentage of produced electricity that was immediately consumed. This KPI could be benchmarked against other prosumers, so we can see if they really are prosumers or if they actually are producers by day and consumers by night.

An accompanying graph could show the average amount of overproduction or overconsumption by hour per day, so the user might see opportunities so shift their consumption.

saroele commented 8 years ago

Love it! A nice analysis that can only be made with detailed monitoring, so a perfect OpenGrid analysis.

We need to take care that the KPI is well designed: increasing self-consumption is easy: just increase consumption. So we should correct the KPI for total consumption. An possible solution is to compute the inverse KPI: the amount of electricity used that was NOT auto-produced. And we can also take into account PV size, household size, etc.

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Idea for a new analysis: prosumer balancing

We would like to encourage solar panel owners (prosumers) to try and consume as much of their production right when it is produced.

There could be a daily KPI that expresses the percentage of produced electricity that was immediately consumed. This KPI could be benchmarked against other prosumers, so we can see if they really are prosumers or if they actually are producers by day and consumers by night.

An accompanying graph could show the average amount of overproduction or overconsumption by hour per day, so the user might see opportunities so shift their consumption.

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