TY - JOUR A1 - Valero Verdú, Sergio AU - Gabaldón Marín, Antonio AU - Encinas Redondo, Nuria AU - Ortiz García, Mario AU - García Franco, Francisco J. AU - Senabre Blanes, Carolina AU - Cárcel, Juan Antonio AU - Molina García, Ángel T1 - Development of new tools to promote a more effective consumer participation in short-term electricity markets Y1 - 2006 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/1144 AB - This paper summarizes the research work performed to show the capability of a combination of tools based on Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) and Physically Based Load Models (PBLM) to classify and extract pat-terns from distributor, aggregator and customer electrical demand databases (the objective known as data mining). This approach basically uses low cost information avail-able for almost all supply side agents: historic load curves of several kinds of customers. The first objective is to find a correlation between demand and the evolution of energy prices in short-term energy markets. A SOM was trained that should allow to select the most suitable customer clusters whose demand modification would benefit cus-tomer and supply-side agents through, for example, energy efficiency, distributed generation or demand response. After a previous evaluation through PBLM of different possible strategies to reduce demand during consumption peaks, a SOM was trained to detect opportunities among users with high reduction capabilities during periods when day-ahead prices are lower than shorter-term prices. The results obtained clearly show the suitability of SOM ap-proach to find easily coherent clusters between electrical users with high demand or available response capacity, and therefore a possible way to promote customer partici-pation in electrical energy markets is opened. KW - Ingeniería Eléctrica KW - Mercados de energía eléctrica KW - Patrón de demanda KW - Segmentación de clientes KW - Respuesta de demanda KW - Modelado de carga KW - Funcionamiento del sistema de alimentación KW - Electrical energy markets KW - Demand pattern KW - Customer segmentation KW - Demand Response KW - Load modeling KW - Power system operation KW - Self organizing maps KW - Auto organización de mapas LA - eng PB - International Computing Sciences Conferences Canadá (ICSC) ER -