Forecasting for smart energy: an accurate and effificient negative binomial additive model

<div>Smart energy requires accurate and effificient short-term electric load forecasting to enable effificient</div><div>energy management and active real-time power control. Forecasting accuracy is inflfluenced by the char</div><div>acteristics of electrical load particularly overdispersion, nonlinearity, autocorrelation and seasonal patterns.</div><div>Although several fundamental forecasting methods have been proposed, accurate and effificient forecasting</div><div>methods that can consider all electric load characteristics are still needed. Therefore, we propose a novel</div><div>model for short-term electric load forecasting. The model adopts the negative binomial additive models</div><div>(NBAM) for handling overdispersion and capturing the nonlinearity of electric load. To address the season</div><div>ality, the daily load pattern is classifified into high, moderate, and low seasons, and the autocorrelation of</div><div>load is modeled separately in each season. We also consider the effificiency of forecasting since the NBAM</div><div>captures the behavior of predictors by smooth functions that are estimated via a scoring algorithm which has</div><div>low computational demand. The proposed NBAM is applied to real-world data set from Jericho city, and its</div><div>accuracy and effificiency outperform those of the other models used in this context.</div>