Appliance - Usage Insights
The Appliance - Usage Insights subject area includes data elements about energy use for individual electricity appliances, such as clothes washers, ovens, heating, and cooling. Utilities can use this data to gain insights into how customers use energy in different appliance end-use categories. For example, you could use these data elements to create a bar graph that visualizes what types of appliance are used the most, or a time-based line graph to show which appliances draw the most energy at different points during the day.
Note: The appliance usage insights are for electricity usage only.
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Data Element |
Description |
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Appliance |
The name or type of appliance for which usage insights are available. The appliances that can be reported on include:
Type: Attribute |
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Appliance Usage |
The energy use of an appliance (such as a clothes washer or dishwasher) during a selected period of time. This value is calculated using Oracle Utilities Opower proprietary data science models. Type: Measure |
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Appliance Usage per HH |
The energy use of an appliance (such as a clothes washer or a dishwasher) during a selected period of time for each household at a utility. This value is calculated by dividing the following: Appliance Usage / Unique Household Count. Type: Measure |
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Hour |
The hour of the day for the appliance usage, expressed in whole numbers between 0 and 23. Type: Attribute |
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Total Usage |
The total amount of AMI energy use from a customer's AMI meter. This includes detected appliance usage as well as any other type of usage that has not been detected and categorized. For example, imagine that Total Usage is 1000 kWh, and that the usage for three specific appliances is detected by Oracle Utilities Opower data science models: one appliance uses 300 kWhs, another appliance uses 100 kWhs, and a third appliance uses 50 kWhs. In this case, it is useful to know the share of the detected appliances' usage out of the total usage, even though there are still 550 kWhs of undetected "other" usage. Type: Measure |
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Total Usage per HH |
The total amount of AMI energy use from a customer's AMI meter for each household at a utility. This value is calculated by dividing the following: Total Usage / Unique Household Count. Type: Measure |
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Unique Household Count |
A count of how many unique households have one or more major appliances. Type: Measure |