scholarly journals Short-Term Electricity Load Forecasting Model Based on EMD-GRU with Feature Selection

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Gao ◽  
Xiaobing Li ◽  
Bing Zhao ◽  
Weijia Ji ◽  
Xiao Jing ◽  
...  

Many factors affect short-term electric load, and the superposition of these factors leads to it being non-linear and non-stationary. Separating different load components from the original load series can help to improve the accuracy of prediction, but the direct modeling and predicting of the decomposed time series components will give rise to multiple random errors and increase the workload of prediction. This paper proposes a short-term electricity load forecasting model based on an empirical mode decomposition-gated recurrent unit (EMD-GRU) with feature selection (FS-EMD-GRU). First, the original load series is decomposed into several sub-series by EMD. Then, we analyze the correlation between the sub-series and the original load series through the Pearson correlation coefficient method. Some sub-series with high correlation with the original load series are selected as features and input into the GRU network together with the original load series to establish the prediction model. Three public data sets provided by the U.S. public utility and the load data from a region in northwestern China were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The experiment results showed that the average prediction accuracy of the proposed method on four data sets was 96.9%, 95.31%, 95.72%, and 97.17% respectively. Compared to a single GRU, support vector regression (SVR), random forest (RF) models and EMD-GRU, EMD-SVR, EMD-RF models, the prediction accuracy of the proposed method in this paper was higher.

2016 ◽  
pp. 1161-1183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuncay Ozcan ◽  
Tarik Küçükdeniz ◽  
Funda Hatice Sezgin

Electricity load forecasting is crucial for electricity generation companies, distributors and other electricity market participants. In this study, several forecasting techniques are applied to time series modeling and forecasting of the hourly loads. Seasonal grey model, support vector regression, random forests, seasonal ARIMA and linear regression are benchmarked on seven data sets. A rolling forecasting model is developed and 24 hours of the next day is predicted for the last 14 days of each data set. This day-ahead forecasting model is especially important in day-ahead market activities and plant scheduling operations. Experimental results indicate that support vector regression and seasonal grey model outperforms other approaches in terms of forecast accuracy for day-ahead load forecasting.


Author(s):  
Tuncay Ozcan ◽  
Tarik Küçükdeniz ◽  
Funda Hatice Sezgin

Electricity load forecasting is crucial for electricity generation companies, distributors and other electricity market participants. In this study, several forecasting techniques are applied to time series modeling and forecasting of the hourly loads. Seasonal grey model, support vector regression, random forests, seasonal ARIMA and linear regression are benchmarked on seven data sets. A rolling forecasting model is developed and 24 hours of the next day is predicted for the last 14 days of each data set. This day-ahead forecasting model is especially important in day-ahead market activities and plant scheduling operations. Experimental results indicate that support vector regression and seasonal grey model outperforms other approaches in terms of forecast accuracy for day-ahead load forecasting.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 5193
Author(s):  
Nasir Ayub ◽  
Muhammad Irfan ◽  
Muhammad Awais ◽  
Usman Ali ◽  
Tariq Ali ◽  
...  

Electrical load forecasting provides knowledge about future consumption and generation of electricity. There is a high level of fluctuation behavior between energy generation and consumption. Sometimes, the energy demand of the consumer becomes higher than the energy already generated, and vice versa. Electricity load forecasting provides a monitoring framework for future energy generation, consumption, and making a balance between them. In this paper, we propose a framework, in which deep learning and supervised machine learning techniques are implemented for electricity-load forecasting. A three-step model is proposed, which includes: feature selection, extraction, and classification. The hybrid of Random Forest (RF) and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) is used to calculate features’ importance. The average feature importance of hybrid techniques selects the most relevant and high importance features in the feature selection method. The Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) method is used to eliminate the irrelevant features in the feature extraction method. The load forecasting is performed with Support Vector Machines (SVM) and a hybrid of Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). The meta-heuristic algorithms, i.e., Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) and Earth Worm Optimization (EWO) are applied to tune the hyper-parameters of SVM and CNN-GRU, respectively. The accuracy of our enhanced techniques CNN-GRU-EWO and SVM-GWO is 96.33% and 90.67%, respectively. Our proposed techniques CNN-GRU-EWO and SVM-GWO perform 7% and 3% better than the State-Of-The-Art (SOTA). In the end, a comparison with SOTA techniques is performed to show the improvement of the proposed techniques. This comparison showed that the proposed technique performs well and results in the lowest performance error rates and highest accuracy rates as compared to other techniques.


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