The second edition of the Smart Energy Research Lab (SERL) Observatory dataset is now available to SERL approved researchers.
The dataset includes daily and half-hourly domestic gas and electricity consumption data for approximately 4800 households recruited in SERL Waves 1 and 2. The data covers the period from August 2018 to October 2020. Linked to this smart meter data is Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data for the households (where available); over 20 different weather data variables; and building and demographic information about the SERL households taken from a contextual survey answered by participants. All SERL data is subject to strict data governance in line with the Smart Energy Code (SEC) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This second edition updates the previous dataset released in August 2020 which was comprised of data from 1700 pilot study (Wave 1) participants.
The data is accessible to accredited UK academic researchers who have successfully applied to access SERL through the process detailed here: Accessing SERL data
SERL Director Simon Elam said: ‘This new edition of the dataset is a major milestone of the SERL project and represents the fruits of the labours of the SERL consortium team over the past three and a half years. We are very excited to make the data available to researchers and we hope to see more and more researchers putting in project applications and using the data in their research’.
A further release is planned for later in 2021 which will add data for the SERL Wave 3 participants and thus cover the full SERL Observatory panel of over 13,300 homes.
For more detailed documentation on the SERL Observatory dataset please see the UK Data Service Catalogue entry (Study 8666)