Advances in Time Series Forecasting Development for Power Systems’ Operation with MLOps

Forecast developers predominantly assess residuals and error statistics when tuning the targeted model’s quality. With that, eventual cost or rewards of the underlying business application are typically not considered in the model development phase. The analysis of the power system wholesale market...

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Main Authors: Gonca Gürses-Tran, Antonello Monti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-05-01
Series:Forecasting
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9394/4/2/28
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Summary:Forecast developers predominantly assess residuals and error statistics when tuning the targeted model’s quality. With that, eventual cost or rewards of the underlying business application are typically not considered in the model development phase. The analysis of the power system wholesale market allows us to translate a time series forecast method’s quality to its respective business value. For instance, near real-time capacity procurement takes place in the wholesale market, which is subject to complex interrelations of system operators’ grid activities and balancing parties’ scheduling behavior. Such forecasting tasks can hardly be solved with model-driven approaches because of the large solution space and non-convexity of the optimization problem. Thus, we generate load forecasts by means of a data-driven based forecasting tool <i>ProLoaF</i>, which we benchmark with state-of-the-art baseline models and the auto-machine learning models <i>auto.arima</i> and <i>Facebook Prophet</i>.
ISSN:2571-9394