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Energy Forecasting Using Time-Series Analysis

A special issue of Forecasting (ISSN 2571-9394). This special issue belongs to the section "Power and Energy Forecasting".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 7516

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Xiaojun Luo

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Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business and Law, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
Interests: artificial intelligence; blockchain; machine learning; building energy modeling; building information modeling; sustainable buildings; renewable and sustainable energy
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Prof. Dr. Paras Mandal

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Power & Renewable Energy Systems (PRES) Lab., Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
Interests: energy forecasting; cyber-physical systems; smart grid; power systems operations and control; machine learning; intelligent systems; data analytics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Time-series analysis for forecasting has recently become a widely investigated topic. The accuracy, effectiveness, repeatability, and computational time of forecasting algorithms are receiving increasing attention. Their applications are also varied, ranging from commercial buildings and industrial buildings to residential buildings; from single buildings and regional districts to nation-wide; from short-term and medium-term to long-term prediction; and from heating and cooling to electrical energy. Accurate and effective energy prediction is an important task to enhance energy efficiency and to plan and operate systems in a more reliable manner. Therefore, it is of great significance to develop and implement new intelligent, adaptive, accurate, effective, and time-saving energy prediction models. Big data, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have become critical to achieve time-series analysis and prediction.

This Special Issue aims to contribute to the advancement of energy prediction using intelligent, adaptive, accurate, effective, and time-saving time-series models. We invite papers on innovative time-series analysis applications to energy forecasting, including reviews and case studies.

Dr. Xiaojun Luo
Prof. Dr. Paras Mandal
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • time-series
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • deep learning
  • energy consumption forecast
  • renewable energy
  • building energy
  • smart grid

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Performance Analysis of Statistical, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models in Long-Term Forecasting of Solar Power Production
by Ashish Sedai, Rabin Dhakal, Shishir Gautam, Anibesh Dhamala, Argenis Bilbao, Qin Wang, Adam Wigington and Suhas Pol
Forecasting 2023, 5(1), 256-284; https://doi.org/10.3390/forecast5010014 - 22 Feb 2023
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The Machine Learning/Deep Learning (ML/DL) forecasting model has helped stakeholders overcome uncertainties associated with renewable energy resources and time planning for probable near-term power fluctuations. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of long-term forecasting of renewable energy resources using an existing ML/DL model is still debatable [...] Read more.
The Machine Learning/Deep Learning (ML/DL) forecasting model has helped stakeholders overcome uncertainties associated with renewable energy resources and time planning for probable near-term power fluctuations. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of long-term forecasting of renewable energy resources using an existing ML/DL model is still debatable and needs additional research. Considering the constraints inherent in current empirical or physical-based forecasting models, the study utilizes ML/DL models to provide long-term predictions for solar power production. This study aims to examine the efficacy of several existing forecasting models. The study suggests approaches to enhance the accuracy of long-term forecasting of solar power generation for a case study power plant. It summarizes and compares the statistical model (ARIMA), ML model (SVR), DL models (LSTM, GRU, etc.), and ensemble models (RF, hybrid) with respect to long-term prediction. The performances of the univariate and multivariate models are summarized and compared based on their ability to accurately predict solar power generation for the next 1, 3, 5, and 15 days for a 100-kW solar power plant in Lubbock, TX, USA. Conclusions are drawn predicting the accuracy of various model changes with variation in the prediction time frame and input variables. In summary, the Random Forest model predicted long-term solar power generation with 50% better accuracy over the univariate statistical model and 10% better accuracy over multivariate ML/DL models. Full article
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