ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS RESEARCH, cilt.217, sa.109165, ss.1-13, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)
Considering the millions of end-users in a medium-scale city, even achieving a smart price improvement
or imposing incentives for flattening the demands makes millions of saving. Hence, load profiling for
electricity companies has recently emerged as a crucial requirement for commitment agreements, maintenance
programming, and efficient energy management within demand response applications. Those facilities require
load type classification in the customer data set to apply the deterministic and stochastic techniques in the
planning and operation processes. In this manner, we have presented a novel procedure with a customized
genetic algorithm (GA) to generate load profiles without adopting costly techniques. Using the regional survey
or statistical data for generating the profiles, we have considered the real-time scenarios in terms of living
people and household appliances for the residential sector. Namely, the usage habit parameters are estimated
recursively by GA, then those parameters are used to generate near-realistic profiles. The overall scheme is
tested on MATLAB® and remarkable results are illustrated.