Comparative Analysis of Statistical, Machine Learning, and Grey Methods for Short-Term Electricity Load Forecasting

2016 ◽  
pp. 1161-1183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuncay Ozcan ◽  
Tarik Küçükdeniz ◽  
Funda Hatice Sezgin
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Regression ◽  
Electricity Market ◽  
Load Forecasting ◽  
Forecast Accuracy ◽  
Grey Model ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Forecasting Model ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Electricity Load ◽  
Electricity Load Forecasting

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.

Comparative Analysis of Statistical, Machine Learning, and Grey Methods for Short-Term Electricity Load Forecasting

2016 ◽  
pp. 96-118
Author(s):  
Tuncay Ozcan ◽  
Tarik Küçükdeniz ◽  
Funda Hatice Sezgin
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Regression ◽  
Electricity Market ◽  
Load Forecasting ◽  
Forecast Accuracy ◽  
Grey Model ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Forecasting Model ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Electricity Load ◽  
Electricity Load Forecasting

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.

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 ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Load Forecasting ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Forecasting Model ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Electricity Load ◽  
Electricity Load Forecasting

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.

scholarly journals Electricity Load Forecasting Using Support Vector Regression with Memetic Algorithms

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongyi Hu ◽  
Yukun Bao ◽  
Tao Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Regression ◽  
Electricity Markets ◽  
Load Forecasting ◽  
Solution Space ◽  
Memetic Algorithms ◽  
Pattern Search ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Forecasting Models ◽  
Electricity Load ◽  
Electricity Load Forecasting

Electricity load forecasting is an important issue that is widely explored and examined in power systems operation literature and commercial transactions in electricity markets literature as well. Among the existing forecasting models, support vector regression (SVR) has gained much attention. Considering the performance of SVR highly depends on its parameters; this study proposed a firefly algorithm (FA) based memetic algorithm (FA-MA) to appropriately determine the parameters of SVR forecasting model. In the proposed FA-MA algorithm, the FA algorithm is applied to explore the solution space, and the pattern search is used to conduct individual learning and thus enhance the exploitation of FA. Experimental results confirm that the proposed FA-MA based SVR model can not only yield more accurate forecasting results than the other four evolutionary algorithms based SVR models and three well-known forecasting models but also outperform the hybrid algorithms in the related existing literature.

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