Big Data Analytics in China's Electric Power Industry: Modern Information, Communication Technologies, and Millions of Smart Meters

Driven by its fast-growing high-tech industry during the 2010s, China has witnessed an upsurge in data rates from online shopping, mobile Internet services, and industrial informatization, among other uses. As awareness of big data has increased, multiple industries have begun to embrace analytics to exploit value from all these data. The electric power industry, using modern information and communication technologies and millions of newly deployed smart meters, is an important forerunner in the big data analytics field.