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Analysis of Qatar's electricity landscape: Insights from load profiling, clustering, and policy recommendations

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submitted on 2024-09-23, 08:37 and posted on 2024-09-23, 08:38 authored by Haya Monawwar, Khaled Abedrabboh, Omar Almarri, Furkan Ahmad, Luluwah Al-Fagih

Demand side management (DSM) is an important strategy for promoting sustainable consumption in resource-rich countries with high purchasing power and subsidized tariffs. Global energy and environmental resource consumption have increased rapidly due to advances in production and transportation, leading to inefficient and wasteful use of resources. DSM aims to address these issues by promoting efficiency. To implement appropriate DSM strategies, a greater understanding of consumer behavior is needed. To do so, load profiling and load clustering are two popular methods that can be used. This paper aims to i) summarize the most recent global load profiling and clustering works ii) use official smart meter data to understand key electricity consumption trends in Qatar, such as temperature-demand correlation, weekend vs. weekday, and public holiday consumption patterns, and iii) perform load clustering to propose policies that would help manage the electricity load in Qatar for its green growth. This study provides insights into the electricity consumption trends of various sectors in Qatar, including commercial, government, hospitality, and residential sectors. It was found that among all the sectors there were only two usage periods of the same time. There is naturally a strong correlation between temperature and electricity consumption throughout the sectors. Furthermore, it was observed that the consumption of the sectors is highly similar which leads to multiple sectors being present in the same cluster. Finally, policy changes are proposed based on the results to encourage demand response programs in Qatar.

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Published in: Energy Reports
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2024.06.021

Funding

Open Access funding provided by the Qatar National Library.

History

Language

  • English

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Year

  • 2024

License statement

This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Institution affiliated with

  • Hamad Bin Khalifa University
  • College of Science and Engineering - HBKU

Geographic coverage

Qatar