A Formulation Method of Residential Tiered Electricity Pricing Based on Clustering Analysis of Electricity Consumption
Residential tiered electricity pricing has been put into practice for some years in China.To solve the shortcom-ings of the existing methods,a new formulation method of tiered electricity pricing based on clustering analysis of electric-ity consumption data is proposed in this paper.First the structural characteristics of electricity consumption data and the basic principle of k-means++ clustering algorithm are outlined.The clustering result is used as the basis for making tiered level.Second the electricity price optimization model is established.The optimization result is used as the basis for the formulation of tiered unit price.Finally an example based on the sampled data is calculated to verify the superiority of the proposed method.