A comprehensive review of big data applications for power systems

By this study, author aims for reader to get basic knowledge about energy systems, relation between data and energy systems, big-data analytics concept. Concept of intelligent energy systems, namely smart grid is described. Concept of big-data is studied. Benefits of data-driven systems are searched. A detailed information about applications of big-data on energy systems is given. Sources of energy big-data is studied. Many applications studied before are analyzed. Finally, we point out the challenges of managing big data-driven energy systems. Effect of big-data analytics of energy efficiency. Examples of studies to increase energy efficiency. Challenging aspects of managing such a huge amount of data. Gives some requirements of s IT infrastructure to achieve applications on data. A comprehensive review on big data driven smart energy management applications is presented.