Analysis of Dominant Factors in Chinese Power Growth Based on Fuzzy Association Rules

The development of power system in developing countries can be affected by a great many parameters, hence it is necessary to identify the dominant factors, which are the most influential and typical. In this paper, 27 different variables were selected from statistics across China covering the period 1978-2008. By applying recently developed data mining techniques, interesting relationship between electricity consumption and influencing factors were obtained. Finally, four dominant factors as well as five sub-dominant factors were declared based on the confidence value of association rules.