The initial phase of reforms in the Indian power sector was primarily aimed at bringing regulatory reforms and unbundling of the vertically integrated State Electricity Boards (SEBs). Enactment of the Electricity Act 2003 led to deepening of the reform process by dismantling this monopoly in the...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Residential Electricity Consumption Pattern Mining based on Fuzzy Clustering -- Chapter 3 Load Profiling Considering Shape Similarity using Shape-based Clustering -- Chapter 4 Load Classification and Driven Factors Identification based on Ensemble Clustering...