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2007 Database Updates Now Available !2007 commercial, industrial, and residential databases are now available. These updates include new information on utility customers in each utility service area, state and province. Extensions include:
MAISY Utility Customer DatabasesMAISY (Market Analysis and Information System) Databases have been developed from information on more than 1 million individual utility customers throughout the US and Canada, providing a representative sample of residential, commercial and industrial customers for utility service areas, states and provinces. Large customer samples within states and service areas maintain the diversity of actual customer populations, providing a more accurate analysis of customers, markets and market segments compared to "average" customer information. (for more information on this topic see MAISY Individual Customer-Based Hourly Loads Data Avoids Pitfalls Associated With Predefined Prototype and Average Segment Loads). MAISY Utility Customer Databases include energy use, hourly loads, building, equipment, operating, occupant and other energy-related information for individual commercial , industrial and residential customers records including 8760 hourly loads for individual end uses.
MAISY Customer DataMAISY Utility Customer Databases have expanded considerably since their introduction in 1995. The first databases included survey data from 15,000 customers providing only regional detail and annual energy use characteristics. Current databases have been developed with information from more than one million individual utility customers records throughout the US and Canada providing geographic detail down to individual service areas and energy use detail to 8760 hourly loads with end use detail. Hundreds of data sources are used to develop the utility customer databases. MAISY Databases are widely recognized as the most authoritative source of utility customer energy use information available and have been used by utilities, energy service providers, energy service companies, equipment manufacturers, research organizations and other organizations interested in utility customer energy use. MAISY data have also been used to support appliance and equipment efficiency standards development undertaken for the US Department of Energy. MAISY Databases provide up-to-date information on industrial, commercial and residential customers, customer segments and market segments in each state and utility service area market. Databases reflect information from hundreds of different customer and market data sources including onsite customer surveys, utility and fuel supplier billing data, government, association and proprietary data, and other sources including ongoing Jackson Associates customer data development. Databases are continuously updated to reflect important recent trends in the most important determinants of residential, commercial and industrial energy use. MAISY Databases are scalable; that is, any subset of customer variables or geographic areas can be extracted from the full databases and provided to clients in customer database development.
Customer-detailed information includes energy
use, 8760 hourly loads, building, equipment, operating, occupant, other
energy-related information for each commercial , industrial and residential
customers record. The following links document database variables included
in the Commercial, Industrial and Residential MAISY databases in more
detail: Accessing MAISY Customer Information
MAISY Databases Software applies a patented
data exploration process to answer specific questions with mouse-clicks on
charts and permit users to navigate state and utility databases, exploring
customer characteristics and relationships. Information can be viewed in
chart or table form at any level of aggregation ranging from an individual
customer to all customers in a service area, state or province. MAISY provides
detailed reports and exports data to other software systems. The software
runs from desktop or network systems. Exporting Customer and Hourly Load Data From MAISY
All customer and hourly load data can be exported from MAISY systems into
into comma-delimited files (CSV) which can be read by Excel and nearly all
other data-related software. Be Sure to View Other MAISY Data ProductsIf you only need a subset of the data or are interested in products frequently requested by our clients and now provided as standard data products be sure to visit the Other Data Products part of our Web site.
Individual Customer Characteristics Versus "Prototype or Typical" Load ProfilesThe MAISY system permits users to select individual customers or customer segments based on dozens or even on hundreds of customer characteristics. Pick any combination of business type, floor space, operating schedules, space heating fuel, year of construction and many other variables to zero in on a specific customer type or market segment. What about other load-profiling systems that offer 12, 36 , 75 or some other limited number of fixed customer segments? To represent 13 commercial business types; electric, gas and oil heat; small, medium and large buildings requires 117 prototypes or "typical" buildings. Add in age categories and more than 200 "fixed prototypes" would be required, well beyond the scope of these "fixed" systems. With MAISY, customer and segment selections provide hundreds of possible definitions with nearly unlimited choices of customer characteristics. Only MAISY provides the detail and flexibility required to reflect the extensive customer and segment detail required in competitive markets. Relying on "prototype and typical" is similar to analyzing a "typical" family which consists of two adults and 0.6 children - it may reflect an average but it may also provide misleading results when used to understand customers, to develop programs to fit the needs of individual customer segments or to evaluate the profitability of serving these customers. Sources of load profile data which rely on fixed customer segments (e.g. large, medium and small offices) typically develop hourly load data with engineering models (e.g., DOE2) of a single "prototype" building. The aggregate nature of these representations misses the variation that exists among individual buildings within these segments, hiding important market information. For instance, a particular electric rate structure may provide a competitive profit based on an entire segment's single prototype load profile; however, analysis of subsets of the segment (which can be performed with MAISY but not with the "prototype or typical" load profile approach) may reveal significant diversity in profit levels across customer sub-segments such that some customers are provided power at a loss while profit margins on other customers result in cream-skimming targets for other suppliers. (For more information on this topic see MAISY Individual Customer-Based Hourly Loads Data Avoids Pitfalls Associated With Predefined Prototype and Average Segment Loads) |
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