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Improving load forecast accuracy by clustering consumers using smart meter data

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posted on 2024-06-04, 02:17 authored by A Shahzadeh, Abbas KhosraviAbbas Khosravi, S Nahavandi
Utility 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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Pagination

1-7

Location

Killarney, Ireland

Start date

2015-07-12

End date

2015-07-17

ISSN

2161-4393

ISBN-13

9781479919604

Language

eng

Publication classification

E Conference publication, E1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2015, IEEE

Title of proceedings

IJCNN 2015: Proceedings of the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Event

The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (2015: Killarney, Ireland)

Publisher

IEEE

Place of publication

Piscataway, N.J.

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