A hybrid temporal convolutional network and Prophet model for power load forecasting

Abstract Accurate and effective power system load forecasting is an important prerequisite for the safe and stable operation of the power grid and the normal production and operation of society. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in time series prediction due...

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Main Authors: Jinyuan Mo, Rui Wang, Mengda Cao, Kang Yang, Xu Yang, Tao Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2022-12-01
Series:Complex & Intelligent Systems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-022-00952-x
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author Jinyuan Mo
Rui Wang
Mengda Cao
Kang Yang
Xu Yang
Tao Zhang
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Rui Wang
Mengda Cao
Kang Yang
Xu Yang
Tao Zhang
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description Abstract Accurate and effective power system load forecasting is an important prerequisite for the safe and stable operation of the power grid and the normal production and operation of society. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in time series prediction due to their parallel computing and other characteristics, but it is difficult for CNNs to capture the relationship of sequence context and meanwhile, it easily leads to information leakage. To avoid the drawbacks of CNNs, we adopt a temporal convolutional network (TCN), specially designed for time series. TCN combines causal convolution, dilated convolution, and residual connection, and fully considers the causal correlation between historical data and future data. Considering that the power load data has strong periodicity and is greatly influenced by seasons and holidays, we adopt the Prophet model to decompose the load data and fit the trend component, season component, and holiday component. We use TCN and Prophet to forecast the power load data respectively, and then use the least square method to fuse the two models, and make use of their respective advantages to improve the forecasting accuracy. Experiments show that the proposed TCN-Prophet model has a higher prediction accuracy than the classic ARIMA, RNN, LSTM, GRU, and some ensemble models, and can provide more effective decision-making references for power grid departments.
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spelling doaj.art-c7e98adbfdaf4b6db14b14ca4863b9192023-07-30T11:28:15ZengSpringerComplex & Intelligent Systems2199-45362198-60532022-12-01944249426110.1007/s40747-022-00952-xA hybrid temporal convolutional network and Prophet model for power load forecastingJinyuan Mo0Rui Wang1Mengda Cao2Kang Yang3Xu Yang4Tao Zhang5College of System Engineering, National University of Defense TechnologyCollege of System Engineering, National University of Defense TechnologyCollege of System Engineering, National University of Defense TechnologyCollege of System Engineering, National University of Defense TechnologyCollege of System Engineering, National University of Defense TechnologyCollege of System Engineering, National University of Defense TechnologyAbstract Accurate and effective power system load forecasting is an important prerequisite for the safe and stable operation of the power grid and the normal production and operation of society. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in time series prediction due to their parallel computing and other characteristics, but it is difficult for CNNs to capture the relationship of sequence context and meanwhile, it easily leads to information leakage. To avoid the drawbacks of CNNs, we adopt a temporal convolutional network (TCN), specially designed for time series. TCN combines causal convolution, dilated convolution, and residual connection, and fully considers the causal correlation between historical data and future data. Considering that the power load data has strong periodicity and is greatly influenced by seasons and holidays, we adopt the Prophet model to decompose the load data and fit the trend component, season component, and holiday component. We use TCN and Prophet to forecast the power load data respectively, and then use the least square method to fuse the two models, and make use of their respective advantages to improve the forecasting accuracy. Experiments show that the proposed TCN-Prophet model has a higher prediction accuracy than the classic ARIMA, RNN, LSTM, GRU, and some ensemble models, and can provide more effective decision-making references for power grid departments.https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-022-00952-xPower load forecastingTemporal convolutional networkProphet modelLeast square method
spellingShingle Jinyuan Mo
Rui Wang
Mengda Cao
Kang Yang
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Tao Zhang
A hybrid temporal convolutional network and Prophet model for power load forecasting
Complex & Intelligent Systems
Power load forecasting
Temporal convolutional network
Prophet model
Least square method
title A hybrid temporal convolutional network and Prophet model for power load forecasting
title_full A hybrid temporal convolutional network and Prophet model for power load forecasting
title_fullStr A hybrid temporal convolutional network and Prophet model for power load forecasting
title_full_unstemmed A hybrid temporal convolutional network and Prophet model for power load forecasting
title_short A hybrid temporal convolutional network and Prophet model for power load forecasting
title_sort hybrid temporal convolutional network and prophet model for power load forecasting
topic Power load forecasting
Temporal convolutional network
Prophet model
Least square method
url https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-022-00952-x
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