R: UK electricity load data

UKload {qgam} | R Documentation

## UK electricity load data

### Description

Dataset on UK electricity demand, taken from the national grid (http://www2.nationalgrid.com/).

### Usage

    data(UKload)

### Format

`UKload` contains the following variables:

NetDemand

  net electricity demand between 11:30am and 12am.

wM

  instantaneous temperature, averaged over several English cities.

wM_s95

  exponential smooth of `wM`, that is `wM_s95[i] = a*wM_s95[i-1] + (1-a)*wM[i]` with `a=0.95`

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Posan

  periodic index in `[0, 1]` indicating the position along the year.

Dow

  factor variable indicating the day of the week.

Trend

  progressive counter, useful for defining the long term trend.

NetDemand.48

  lagged version of `NetDemand`, that is `NetDemand.48[i] = NetDemand[i-2]`.

Holy

  binary variable indicating holidays.

Year

  should be obvious.

Date

  should be obvious.

### Details

See Fasiolo et al. (2017) for details.

### Value

matrix of replicate data series

### References

Fasiolo, M., Goude, Y., Nedellec, R. and Wood, S. N. (2017). Fast calibrated additive quantile regression. Available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03307.

### Examples

      library(qgam)
      data(UKload)
      plot(UKload$NetDemand, type = 'l')

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