Data-Driven Methods for a New National Household Energy Survey

我们提出了一项研究计划，旨在建立全国家庭能源使用调查的新方法，以补充现有方法（例如，英国住房调查和区域等效方法），该方法利用智能电表的推出来实现对能源使用行为的成本效益和详细了解。这种新方法的关键促成因素是：1)智能电表本身，2)半监督分解方法的进步，可以推断导致能源使用的行为，以及3)放置在一些家庭中的其他无线传感器来引导分解方法。产出将是双重的：一种经过验证的可扩展的新调查方法，适用于全国推广，为英国家庭的能源消耗提供重要的额外数据；2)评估哪些变量可以用这种方法有效地调查。

We propose a programme of research leading to the establishment of anew methodology for surveying household energy use nationally, tocomplement existing methods (e.g., the English Housing Surveyand regional equivalents), which leverages the rollout of Smart Metersto achieve cost-effective, detailed understanding of energy usebehaviours. The key enablers of this new methodology are: 1) theSmart Meters themselves, 2) advances in semi-supervised disaggregationmethods which can infer the behaviours that result in energy use, and3) other wireless sensors placed in some households to bootstrap thedisaggregation methods. The output will be twofold: a validatedscalable novel survey method suitable for national rollout, providingsignificant additional data on energy consumption in UK homes; and 2)an assessment of which variables can be effectively surveyed with thismethod.