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Improving load forecast accuracy by clustering consumers using smart meter data
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posted on 2015-01-01, 00:00 authored by A Shahzadeh, Abbas KhosraviAbbas Khosravi, Saeid NahavandiUtility companies provide electricity to a large number of consumers. These companies need to have an accurate forecast of the next day electricity demand. Any forecast errors will result in either reliability issues or increased costs for the company. Because of the widespread roll-out of smart meters, a large amount of high resolution consumption data is now accessible which was not available in the past. This new data can be used to improve the load forecast and as a result increase the reliability and decrease the expenses of electricity providers. In this paper, a number of methods for improving load forecast using smart meter data are discussed. In these methods, consumers are first divided into a number of clusters. Then a neural network is trained for each cluster and forecasts of these networks are added together in order to form the prediction for the aggregated load. In this paper, it is demonstrated that clustering increases the forecast accuracy significantly. Criteria used for grouping consumers play an important role in this process. In this work, three different feature selection methods for clustering consumers are explained and the effect of feature extraction methods on forecast error is investigated.
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The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (2015: Killarney, Ireland)Pagination
1 - 7Publisher
IEEELocation
Killarney, IrelandPlace of publication
Piscataway, N.J.Publisher DOI
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2015-07-12End date
2015-07-17ISSN
2161-4393ISBN-13
9781479919604Language
engPublication classification
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