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Figure 1. Electricity Consumption (working days vs. public holidays)
Figure 2. Water consumption (working days vs. public holidays)
Figure 3. Gas consumption (working days vs. public holidays)
The weekly energy usage pattern in weeks
To provide an overview of energy profile of the family, we have analysed data across 43
weeks (i.e., 301 days in total), as shown in Figure 4 a, b and c.
Figure 4a shows the electricity consumption of 43 weeks. Week 27 (5/02/2012-
11/02/2012), week 20 (18/12/2011-24/12/2011), week 30(26/02/2012-03/03/2012), week
11 (16/10/2011-22/10/2011) and week 16 (20/11/2011-26/11/2011) are 5 highest usage
weeks in order. These weeks fall on holidays (public holidays or school holidays). While
week 1 (7/08/2011-14/08/2011), week 42 (20/05/2012-26/05/2012), week 2 (15/08/2011-
21/08/2011) and week 43 (27/05/2012-2/06/2012) are five lowest usage weeks in order.
These weeks are in the summer season and two of 5 weeks are school holidays.
Figure 4b shows the weekly usage of water consumption. Five highest usage weeks are
week 40, 7, 34, 27 and 36. Note that week 27 is also the highest usage week for
electricity.
0
20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
2
working days
relative value
electricity
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
2
2.2
2.4
public holidays
relative value
electricity
0
20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
2
working days
relative value
water
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
2
public holidays
relative value
water
0
20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
working days
relative value
gas
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
public holidays
relative value
gas
