Guideline: Kpis for Energy Consumption Effects

This guideline describes how key performance indicators (KPIs) can be used for determining the effect of the smart grid environment on the energy consumption of the users. The goal of this guideline is to give an overview about applying KPIs in your project for the purposes of providing consumer feedback and project evaluation. The guideline is intended for the smart grid project leaders, utilities and other smart grid service providers dealing with the consumers. What is it? Smart energy products and services are introduced to have a certain effect on the energy consumption behaviour of the consumer, e.g. to decrease overall consumption or to shift consumption to off-peak periods. Measuring to what extent such effects take or have taken place is thus vital for determining the success of (a set of) smart grid products and services. The first step in doing this is monitoring the energy consumption of the consumer, which is further elaborated in the guideline Monitoring demand response performance. Key performance indicators (KPIs) help express the effects of the (set of) smart grid products and services. Depending on your project objectives you should determine a set of KPIs that will allow you to see what the energy consumption effects are. How well the smart grid environment or its individual consumers perform in light of the overall project aim can be determined by calculating how well they score on the KPIs. This calculation is based on the monitoring data that you have collected. Where this guideline focusses on the effects of the smart energy environment in terms of changes in energy consumption, it is also possible to see how the consumers have experienced the smart grid. More on this is explained in the guideline User-centred KPIs for the evaluation of smart grids, where KPIs for measuring the successfulness of a project from the consumer point of view are discussed. When to use? Based on the project aims the KPIs with respect to energy consumption effects should be determined early in the project. They are used for two different purposes, one the one hand such KPIs can be used for evaluating the project result, so the cumulative effect of the individual participants, which is usually done at the end of the project or at predetermined intervals during the execution phase. Next to this such KPIs can also be used for individual consumers to provide them with feedback on their energy consumption behaviour. Notifying the consumers