Insight Report: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Overview
This paper reports the findings from three enhanced profiling test cell 2b (Enhanced profiling of SME customers), test cell 9b (SME smart meter customers on time of use tariffs) and 10b (SME customers on restricted hours tariff), providing detailed consumption profiles by appliance or circuit for a range of small and medium sized enterprises customers, as well as providing insights about their potential contribution to demand side response.
These trials were designed to support Learning Outcomes 1 and 2 from the Customer-Led Network Revolution (CLNR) project. Specifically, they provide the data needed to develop;
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a greater understanding of how future economic, social and technological trends are likely to affect the patterns of the various components of load and generation;
- an improved set of load profiles; and,
- a greater understanding of the degree to which customers who have accepted a proposition for flexibility will then respond
The analysis produced for the CLNR non-domestic test cells is particularly relevant given the general lack of other empirical evidence regardign GB SME disaggregated loads.
