8760 Hourly Load Databases

Accurate, easy to use hourly load data for residential, commercial and industrial customers and market segments

MAISY (Market Analysis and Information System) Databases have been developed from information on more than 800,000 individual utility customers throughout the US providing a representative sample of customers for individual regions, states and utility service areas. In addition to psychographic, firmographic information, equipment, building, operating characteristics and other customer information, MAISY Databases include 8760 hourly loads with end-use detail for each customer record. Load data are weather-adjusted to reflect hourly weather data from typical meteorological year (TMY) weather databases for individual weather stations. Users can access and evaluate load profiles for individual customer records or for any grouping of customers defined by location, business, heating fuel and other customer variables in the MAISY Utility Customer Databases. The large number of customers in state and service area databases permits users to develop information for detailed customer types and market segments based on relevant customer characteristics, avoiding the pitfalls of relying on aggregate building average load shapes. Hourly loads are available in full-year 8,760 formats with day-type summaries provided for analysis convenience. This load detail is shown below.

Hourly Loads Detail - available for electric, natural gas and oil energy use

• Day-type 24-hour load profiles

  • For average week day, week end day and peak days

  • For each month

• Full year 8760 hourly loads detailed by

  • Individual end uses (space heating, air conditioning, water heating, lighting, process, ...)

  • Whole building

Hourly load data can be provided for any combination of the following dimensions:

• States, Service Areas, Specific Locations

• Residential, Commercial, Industrial Customers

• Customer Classes, Market Segments, Individual Customers

• US, Canada, Australia

Customer classes, market segments and individual customers can be defined by any of the customer variables available in the MAISY Utility Customer Databases (see residential, commercial, industrial database variables).

MAISY 8760 Hourly Loads Provide A Unique Time and Money-Saving Resource For Almost Any Hourly-Load-Related Task. Whether the task is supporting electric and gas rate analysis for regulated or competitive energy providers, assessing potential for demand response or DG initiatives, forecasting future peak demand, hourly loads, assessing customer profitability in new competitive markets or other applications, MAISY Hourly load data can supplement existing data or, in many cases, provide all customer hourly load data required for the analysis.

The following topics provide additional information on MAISY Hourly load databases.

Advantages of the MAISY 8760 Hourly Loads Databases
Example client applications
Accessing hourly loads data
Custom hourly loads databases

Advantages of MAISY 8760 Hourly Loads Databases

MAISY 8760 Hourly Loads Databases include nearly 1 million residential, commercial and industrial customer records developed to provide a statistically representative sample of customers for each state and service area in the US. Each customer record includes detailed customer characteristics including total building hourly loads for electricity, natural gas and oil along with end-use hourly loads for space heating, air conditioning, ventilation, water heating, lighting, process, and other end uses. Jackson Associates provides its clients with hourly load data to meet a variety of needs in both regulated and competitive markets. Clients include energy suppliers, ESCO's, equipment manufacturers and other energy-industry organizations.

The unique strength of the MAISY Hourly Loads Databases lies in the large number of scientifically-selected customer records which provide information reflecting all customers rather than information for segment averages or "typical" customers. For example, a utility might want to assess its current general service (commercial and small industrial) rate structure with respect to customer equity within the rate structure and the extent to which customer diversity creates incentives for distributed generation applications. Load research samples used by utilities are not typically large enough to reliably support this quantitative analysis nor do they include end use electric loads or thermal loads (space heating, water heating, air conditioning) required to conduct distributed generation potential analysis.

MAISY 8760 hourly loads advantages include the ability to provide:

• Hourly loads for electricity, natural gas, oil and steam

• Hourly loads for individual customers based on detailed building, operating and equipment characteristics

• Hourly loads for customer segments based on detailed building, operating and equipment characteristics

• Hourly loads for any geographic location

• 8760 whole building hourly loads for each customer record

• 8760 end use (space heating, air conditioning, water heating, etc.) hourly loads for each customer record

• Hourly loads for typical and extreme weather patterns based on historical data for each location

• Additional information on building structure, equipment and operating characteristics for each customer record

• Information which can be merged with existing customer, load research and marketing data

MAISY 8760 hourly loads save time and money by providing immediate information resources at a fraction of the cost required to conduct building and/or end-use metering.

Example client applications

The following client applications document a few examples of the MAISY Hourly Load databases uses.

• Rate structure analysis was undertaken for alternative commercial and residential customer rate designs for a regulated utility

• Whole building loads were integrated with a dated load research sample to provide an updated sample of customer loads

• Detailed hourly loads were provided to support load forecasting models for both regulated and competitive electricity providers

• Whole building and end use hourly load profiles were used by an equipment manufacturer to assist in equipment design

• Hourly loads for selected market segments were provided to a DG retailer to support target marketing

• Hourly loads were provided to a distribution utility to develop unbundled rate structures

• Hourly loads have been provided to deregulated electricity providers, ESCO, electric utilities, and companies considering entering the energy retail markets for market sizing and target marketing.

• Hourly load data, including end use detail, were used to develop market potentials and identify geographic target markets for selected energy service measures for an ESCO

• Hourly loads databases have been provided to retail electricity providers to develop profitability scoring models

• Load profiles were provided for electric cooperatives to support rate analysis

• Hourly load data were used to compute spark spreads for 50 utility service areas based on actual gas and electric tariffs

• 8,760 hourly loads have been provided for individual building design analysis

• Hourly loads were used to estimate market potential for power quality products by state

• Hourly lighting loads were used to evaluate lighting technology profit potentials by state and commercial market segment

Accessing Hourly Loads Data

Also see Electricity Use Tables for summary electricity use available for these same market segments.