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Monitoring of Electrical End-Use Loads in Commercial Buildings
Abstract
Southern California Edison is currently
conducting a program to collect end-use metered
data from commercial buildings in its service area.
The data will provide actual measurements of end-use
loads and will be used in research and in
designing energy management programs oriented
toward end-use applications.
The focus of the program is on five major
types of commercial buildings: offices, grocery
stores, restaurants, retail stores, and warehouses.
End-use metering equipment is installed at about 50
buildings, distributed among these five types. The
buildings selected have average demands of 100 to
300 kW. The metered end-uses vary among building
types and include HVAC, lighting, refrigeration.
plug loads, and cooking.
Procedures have been custom-designed to
facilitate collection and validation of the end-use
load data. For example, the Load Profile Viewer is
a PC-based software program for reviewing and
validating the end-use load data.
Citation
Martinez, M.; Alereza, T.; Mort, D. (1988). Monitoring of Electrical End-Use Loads in Commercial Buildings. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /6558.