Analysing low-voltage grids using a behaviour based load profile generator

Abstract

This paper contains a behaviour based load profile generator to generate realistic load profiles for every single household in a low voltage grid. The results are compared with measurements and it is shown that adding up all the generated load profiles results in approximately the same load and curve as measured on the real substation. Based on this, the paper shows that the common approach of scaling down standard load profiles to the individual houses yields very different results than using realistic load profiles.