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Several units in one plant may experience a practical rated output situation at the same time, which may increase the coal consumption of the power plant. Here, we propose a new hybrid methodology for plant-level load optimization to minimize coal consumption for coal-fired power plants. The proposed methodology includes two parts. One part determines the reference value of the controllable operating parameters of net coal consumption under typical load conditions, based on an improved K-means algorithm and the Hadoop platform. The other part utilizes a support vector machine to determine the sensitivity coefficients of various operating parameters for the net coal consumption under different load conditions. Additionally, the fuzzy rough set attribute reduction method was employed to obtain the minimalist properties reduction method parameters to reduce the complexity of the dataset. This work is based on continuously-measured information system data from a 600 MW coal-fired power plant in China. The results show that the proposed strategy achieves high energy conservation performance. Taking the 600 MW load optimization value as an example, the optimized power supply coal consumption is 307.95 g\/(kW\u00b7h) compared to the actual operating value of 313.45 g\/(kW\u00b7h). It is important for coal-fired power plants to reduce their coal consumption.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e20090702","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,13]],"date-time":"2018-09-13T11:46:04Z","timestamp":1536839164000},"page":"702","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Big-Data-Mining-Based Improved K-Means Algorithm for Energy Use Analysis of Coal-Fired Power Plant Units: A Case Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Binghan","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Energy, Power and Mechanical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhongguang","family":"Fu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Energy, Power and Mechanical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pengkai","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Energy, Power and Mechanical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lu","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Power Generation Equipment, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Manda","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Energy, Power and Mechanical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ji","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Power Generation Equipment, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Situation and prospect of energy use for China\u2019s thermal power generation","volume":"33","author":"Yang","year":"2013","journal-title":"Proc. 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