Pecan Street: 15-Minute Household Electricity and Solar Data from Austin
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Description
15-minute interval data for household electricity consumption and solar generation, sourced from the Pecan Street smart grid project in Austin. The dataset is hosted on Kaggle, but the author, organization, and specific collection dates are not provided. The total number of rows, households, and file formats are unknown.
Use Cases
Forecasting residential electricity load based on 15-minute consumption intervals.
Analyzing the correlation between solar generation and grid consumption at a household level.
Modeling energy self-sufficiency and net-metering scenarios using paired consumption and generation data.
Benchmarking time-series forecasting algorithms on high-frequency energy data.
Strengths
Data is collected at a high temporal resolution of 15-minute intervals.
Includes paired measurements for both electricity consumption and on-site solar generation.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
Source
Pecan Street smart grid project.
Collection Method
Likely collected via smart meters and sensors installed in participating Austin households.
Geography
Austin, Texas, USA.
License is unknown; users must verify terms of use before application.