Title
Aggregation of Multi-Scale Experts for Bottom-Up Load Forecasting
Abstract
The development of smart grid and new advanced metering infrastructures induces new opportunities and challenges for utilities. Exploiting smart meters information for forecasting stands as a key point for energy providers who have to deal with time varying portfolio of customers as well as grid managers who needs to improve accuracy of local forecasts to face with distributed renewable energy generation development. We propose a new machine learning approach to forecast the system load of a group of customers exploiting individual load measurements in real time and/or exogenous information like weather and survey data. Our approach consists in building experts using random forests trained on some subsets of customers then normalise their predictions and aggregate them with a convex expert aggregation algorithm to forecast the system load. We propose new aggregation methods and compare two strategies for building subsets of customers: 1) hierarchical clustering based on survey data and/or load features and 2) random clustering strategy. These approaches are evaluated on a real data set of residential Irish customers load at a half hourly resolution. We show that our approaches achieve a significant gain in short term load forecasting accuracy of around 25 percent of RMSE.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TSG.2019.2945088
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Forecasting,Load forecasting,Smart meters,Clustering algorithms,Load modeling,Predictive models
Journal
11
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1949-3053
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Goehry110.35
Yannig Goude2445.38
Pascal Massart310.35
Jean-Michel Poggi417416.19