Short-Term Load Forecasting with Exponentially Weighted Methods

Short-term load forecasts are needed for the efficient management of power systems. Although weather-based modeling is common, univariate models can be useful when the lead time of interest is less than one day. A class of univariate methods that has performed well with intraday data is exponential...

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Auteur principal: Taylor, J
Format: Journal article
Publié: 2012
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description Short-term load forecasts are needed for the efficient management of power systems. Although weather-based modeling is common, univariate models can be useful when the lead time of interest is less than one day. A class of univariate methods that has performed well with intraday data is exponential smoothing. This paper considers five recently developed exponentially weighted methods that have not previously been used for load forecasting. These methods include several exponential smoothing formulations, as well as methods using discount weighted regression, cubic splines, and singular value decomposition (SVD). In addition, this paper presents a new SVD-based exponential smoothing formulation. Using British and French half-hourly load data, these methods are compared for point forecasting up to one day ahead. Although the new SVD-based approach showed some potential, the best performing method was a previously developed exponential smoothing method. A second empirical study showed the better of the univariate methods outperforming a weather-based method up to about five hours ahead, with a combination of these methods producing the best results overall.
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spelling oxford-uuid:29dcfc81-7f8a-4f48-ad8c-de9d5f3695ef2022-03-26T12:21:36ZShort-Term Load Forecasting with Exponentially Weighted MethodsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:29dcfc81-7f8a-4f48-ad8c-de9d5f3695efSaïd Business School - Eureka2012Taylor, JShort-term load forecasts are needed for the efficient management of power systems. Although weather-based modeling is common, univariate models can be useful when the lead time of interest is less than one day. A class of univariate methods that has performed well with intraday data is exponential smoothing. This paper considers five recently developed exponentially weighted methods that have not previously been used for load forecasting. These methods include several exponential smoothing formulations, as well as methods using discount weighted regression, cubic splines, and singular value decomposition (SVD). In addition, this paper presents a new SVD-based exponential smoothing formulation. Using British and French half-hourly load data, these methods are compared for point forecasting up to one day ahead. Although the new SVD-based approach showed some potential, the best performing method was a previously developed exponential smoothing method. A second empirical study showed the better of the univariate methods outperforming a weather-based method up to about five hours ahead, with a combination of these methods producing the best results overall.
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Short-Term Load Forecasting with Exponentially Weighted Methods
title Short-Term Load Forecasting with Exponentially Weighted Methods
title_full Short-Term Load Forecasting with Exponentially Weighted Methods
title_fullStr Short-Term Load Forecasting with Exponentially Weighted Methods
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title_short Short-Term Load Forecasting with Exponentially Weighted Methods
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