Electric — Municipal Utility
Disclosure control & data provenance
Grouping the dataset into 3 customer class groups, 3 were safe to publish and 0 were withheld under the rules below. Across 18000 meter reads, 100.0% of records and 100.0% of total total consumption remain in the published output, with worst-case re-identification risk of 3% (Low).
Anomalies are flagged, not dropped; rows failing validation are quarantined as rejected. 156 reads (0.9%) lack coordinates and are excluded from spatial views.
- No groups required suppression at these settings (k = 15).
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PII handling — identifiers are excluded from the analytic
path; only disclosure-controlled aggregates are reported.
NIST SP 800-122; NISTIR 8053
| Customer class | Total consumption (kWh) | Contributors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| INDUSTRIAL | 54,388,597 | 37 | Published |
| COMMERCIAL | 39,401,813 | 233 | Published |
| RESIDENTIAL | 27,296,524 | 1230 | Published |
Consumption profile
| 10th | 10315 |
| 25th | 14478 |
| Median | 21721 |
| 75th | 39206 |
| 90th | 140491 |
Geography & spatial clustering
No significant spatial pattern — values look randomly placed.
1 hot spot (Getis-Ord Gi*, p < 0.05).
Weather & seasonality
E = 7039 + -4.2528·HDD + 2.4549·CDD · base 65°F · 11 months
Demand & load
| Class | Buildings | p25 | Median | p75 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RESIDENTIAL | 1230 | 0.233 | 0.271 | 0.307 |
| COMMERCIAL | 233 | 0.368 | 0.405 | 0.447 |
| INDUSTRIAL | 37 | 0.48 | 0.516 | 0.579 |
Benchmarking — Energy Use Intensity
| Class | Bldgs | p25 | Median | p75 | vs nat'l |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RESIDENTIAL | 1230 | 23.4 | 36.4 | 57.4 | 121% |
| COMMERCIAL | 233 | 15.5 | 29.2 | 57.4 | 42% |
| INDUSTRIAL | 37 | 19.2 | 53.7 | 131.2 | — |
Energy burden & equity
Burden = annual energy cost ÷ tract median household income at $0.16/kWh. Bands: ≤6% affordable · 6–10% moderate · >10% high (ACEEE).
Measurement & verification (IPMVP Option C)
Baseline model fit on 5 months before Jul 2023; savings measured over the following 6 reporting months. Synthetic demo with no intervention — avoided energy near 0% is the method working correctly.
Differential privacy — an alternative release
An alternative to suppression: instead of hiding small groups, calibrated Laplace noise is added to each count (ε = 1.0, scale b = 1.0) so no individual's presence can be inferred while totals stay useful. Mean absolute error ±0.7 across 3 groups.
Appendix — policy & citations
| Governing standard | 15/15 rule |
| Minimum group size (k) | 15 |
| Dominance (top-n ≤ p) | 1 ≤ 0.15 |
| Min accounts for models | 15 |
| Grouping | Customer class |
- k-anonymity — Sweeney (2002); ESSnet/Eurostat SDC Handbook
- (n,k)-dominance — ESSnet SDC Handbook §4.2; CPUC 15/15
- Inequality — Gini (1912); Lorenz (1905)
- Spatial — Moran (1950); Cliff & Ord (1973)
- Weather / M&V — ASHRAE Guideline 14; IPMVP Option C; PRISM
- Benchmarking — EPA ENERGY STAR; DOE/EIA CBECS/RECS
- Load — NREL UMP; BPA M&V Peak Demand
- Burden — ACEEE; US Census ACS
- Differential privacy — Dwork et al. (2006); US Census 2020 DAS
- PII — NIST SP 800-122; NISTIR 8053; NIST SP 800-188
- Methods & Formulas — every rule & analysis with its formula-as-implemented and primary citation
Synthetic sample data — for demonstration, not distribution. Generated by UnitTrack, a Polish Clover Solutions product · 2026-07-27 18:45.