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Rolling 7-Day Energy Average
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Rolling 7-Day Energy Average

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) needs a customer-level view of recent electricity consumption. Write a PostgreSQL query that first consolidates readings recorded on the same date, then calculates each customer's rolling calendar-based 7-day average usage.

Requirements

  1. Join customers to energy_usage and return only usage associated with a known customer.
  2. Aggregate multiple readings for the same customer and date into one daily usage value using AVG.
  3. Use a window function partitioned by customer and ordered by date. The rolling window must include the current date and the six preceding calendar days, excluding older dates even when some dates have no readings.
  4. Return results ordered by customer ID and usage date, with the rolling average rounded to two decimal places. NULL readings should be ignored by PostgreSQL's aggregate functions.

Schema

customers
ColumnTypeDescription
customer_idPKINTEGERUnique OPPD customer identifier
customer_nameVARCHAR(100)Customer name
energy_usage
ColumnTypeDescription
usage_idPKINTEGERUnique usage reading identifier
customer_idINTEGERReferences customers.customer_id
usage_dateDATEDate of the usage reading
kwh_usedNUMERIC(10,2)Energy consumed in kilowatt-hours
Tablescustomersenergy_usage
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