Consumer Behaviour towards Electricity–A Field Study

Statistics focus on Generating Capacities, Transmission and Distribution. But consumer and his demand for power sourceare crucial for Electrical system and its sustenance. In fact, there is less or no study to predict consumer demand. Their behavi our is hardly understood through load forecasting. A Distribution feeder connects all consumers -poor to rich, rural to suburban then to urban, low demand agriculture to high demand industries etc. Present paper is intended to study domestic consumer covering all socioeconomic geographical sections. A Survey has been carried out to cover all parts of Goa state, India. A Pre-defined survey format, awareness to volunteers, door to door survey, hourly log of consumption etc form parts of it. This study has revealed and created inputs to Electrical Load Online Census, load dynamics like fields.