scholarly journals A Novel Short-Term Residential Electric Load Forecasting Method Based on Adaptive Load Aggregation and Deep Learning Algorithms

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 7820
Author(s):  
Tingting Hou ◽  
Rengcun Fang ◽  
Jinrui Tang ◽  
Ganheng Ge ◽  
Dongjun Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Load Forecasting ◽  
System Level ◽  
Electric Load ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Power Load ◽  
Forecasting Method ◽  
Home Energy Management ◽  
Aggregated Load ◽  
Electric Load Forecasting

Short-term residential load forecasting is the precondition of the day-ahead and intra-day scheduling strategy of the household microgrid. Existing short-term electric load forecasting methods are mainly used to obtain regional power load for system-level power dispatch. Due to the high volatility, strong randomness, and weak regularity of the residential load of a single household, the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of the traditional methods forecasting results would be too big to be used for home energy management. With the increase in the total number of households, the aggregated load becomes more and more stable, and the cyclical pattern of the aggregated load becomes more and more distinct. In the meantime, the maximum daily load does not increase linearly with the increase in households in a small area. Therefore, in our proposed short-term residential load forecasting method, an optimal number of households would be selected adaptively, and the total aggregated residential load of the selected households is used for load prediction. In addition, ordering points to identify the clustering structure (OPTICS) algorithm are also selected to cluster households with similar power consumption patterns adaptively. It can be used to enhance the periodic regularity of the aggregated load in alternative. The aggregated residential load and encoded external factors are then used to predict the load in the next half an hour. The long short-term memory (LSTM) deep learning algorithm is used in the prediction because of its inherited ability to maintain historical data regularity in the forecasting process. The experimental data have verified the effectiveness and accuracy of our proposed method.

scholarly journals Research on Regional Short-Term Power Load Forecasting Model and Case Analysis

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1617
Author(s):  
Kang Qian ◽  
Xinyi Wang ◽  
Yue Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Meteorological Factors ◽  
Load Forecasting ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Forecasting Model ◽  
Electric Load ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Power Load ◽  
Power Load Forecasting ◽  
Electric Load Forecasting

Integrated energy services will have multiple values and far-reaching significance in promoting energy transformation and serving “carbon peak and carbon neutralization”. In order to balance the supply and demand of power system in integrated energy, it is necessary to establish a scientific model for power load forecasting. Different algorithms for short-term electric load forecasting considering meteorological factors are presented in this paper. The correlation between electric load and meteorological factors is first analyzed. After the principal component analysis (PCA) of meteorological factors and autocorrelation analysis of the electric load, the daily load forecasting model is established by optimal support vector machine (OPT-SVM), Elman neural network (ENN), as well as their combinations through linear weighted average, geometric weighted average, and harmonic weighted average method, respectively. Based on the actual data of an industrial park of Nantong in China, the prediction performance in the four seasons with the different models is evaluated. The main contribution of this paper is to compare the effectiveness of different models for short-term electric load forecasting and to give a guideline to build the proper methods for load forecasting.

scholarly journals Multi-Sequence LSTM-RNN Deep Learning and Metaheuristics for Electric Load Forecasting

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salah Bouktif ◽  
Ali Fiaz ◽  
Ali Ouni ◽  
Mohamed Adel Serhani
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Load Forecasting ◽  
Optimal Configuration ◽  
Electric Load ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Metaheuristic Search ◽  
Electric Load Forecasting

Short term electric load forecasting plays a crucial role for utility companies, as it allows for the efficient operation and management of power grid networks, optimal balancing between production and demand, as well as reduced production costs. As the volume and variety of energy data provided by building automation systems, smart meters, and other sources are continuously increasing, long short-term memory (LSTM) deep learning models have become an attractive approach for energy load forecasting. These models are characterized by their capabilities of learning long-term dependencies in collected electric data, which lead to accurate prediction results that outperform several alternative statistical and machine learning approaches. Unfortunately, applying LSTM models may not produce acceptable forecasting results, not only because of the noisy electric data but also due to the naive selection of its hyperparameter values. Therefore, an optimal configuration of an LSTM model is necessary to describe the electric consumption patterns and discover the time-series dynamics in the energy domain. Finding such an optimal configuration is, on the one hand, a combinatorial problem where selection is done from a very large space of choices; on the other hand, it is a learning problem where the hyperparameters should reflect the energy consumption domain knowledge, such as the influential time lags, seasonality, periodicity, and other temporal attributes. To handle this problem, we use in this paper metaheuristic-search-based algorithms, known by their ability to alleviate search complexity as well as their capacity to learn from the domain where they are applied, to find optimal or near-optimal values for the set of tunable LSTM hyperparameters in the electrical energy consumption domain. We tailor both a genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) to learn hyperparameters for load forecasting in the context of energy consumption of big data. The statistical analysis of the obtained result shows that the multi-sequence deep learning model tuned by the metaheuristic search algorithms provides more accurate results than the benchmark machine learning models and the LSTM model whose inputs and hyperparameters were established through limited experience and a discounted number of experimentations.

scholarly journals Novel Data-Driven Models Applied to Short-Term Electric Load Forecasting

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 5708
Author(s):  
Manuel Lopez-Martin ◽  
Antonio Sanchez-Esguevillas ◽  
Luis Hernandez-Callejo ◽  
Juan Ignacio Arribas ◽  
Belen Carro
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Load Forecasting ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Critical Parameters ◽  
Gradient Boosting ◽  
Dynamic Mode ◽  
Electric Load ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Ensemble Models ◽  
Electric Load Forecasting

This work brings together and applies a large representation of the most novel forecasting techniques, with origins and applications in other fields, to the short-term electric load forecasting problem. We present a comparison study between different classic machine learning and deep learning techniques and recent methods for data-driven analysis of dynamical models (dynamic mode decomposition) and deep learning ensemble models applied to short-term load forecasting. This work explores the influence of critical parameters when performing time-series forecasting, such as rolling window length, k-step ahead forecast length, and number/nature of features used to characterize the information used as predictors. The deep learning architectures considered include 1D/2D convolutional and recurrent neural networks and their combination, Seq2seq with and without attention mechanisms, and recent ensemble models based on gradient boosting principles. Three groups of models stand out from the rest according to the forecast scenario: (a) deep learning ensemble models for average results, (b) simple linear regression and Seq2seq models for very short-term forecasts, and (c) combinations of convolutional/recurrent models and deep learning ensemble models for longer-term forecasts.

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