Consumption Patterns

What is a consumption pattern?

Energy consumption, as our activity, has predictability. A regular daily schedule is common for most people. Even in the case of work that is less predictable, there is still a likely chain of events that does occur in a similar way. Predictable activity leads to a predictable energy requirement.

A consumption pattern shows a predictable energy requirement in a specific amount of time. Most obvious cases are for timespans of a day, week, season. Variations may be higher, depending on circumstances.

Consumption patterns

For small businesses, occupancy and activity ramp up and down during a day, and this is followed by electrical energy or gas requirements that also follow the same curve. High occupancy and high density residential dwellings also are in the same situation, but with an inverse pattern of most business activity, if people work on typical day schedules.