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In this work we propose a new methodology for disaggregating the electrical load of a household from low-frequency electrical consumption measurements obtained from a smart meter and contextual environmental information. The method proposed allows, with an unsupervised and non-intrusive approach, to separate loads into two components related to environmental conditions and occupants\u2019 habits. We use a Bayesian approach, in which disaggregation is achieved by exploiting actual electrical load information to update the a priori estimate of user consumption habits, to obtain a probabilistic forecast with hourly resolution of the two components. We obtain a remarkably good accuracy for a benchmark dataset, higher than that obtained with other unsupervised methods and comparable to the results of supervised algorithms based on deep learning. 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