Abstract
The load forecasting problem is a complex nonlinear problem linked with social considerations, economic factors, and weather variations. In particular, load forecasting for holidays is a challenging task as only a small number of historical data is available for holidays compared with what is available for normal weekdays and weekends. This paper presents a fuzzy polynomial regression method with data selection based on Mahalanobis distance incorporating a dominant weather feature for holiday load forecasting. Selection of past weekday data relevant to a given holiday is critical for improvement of the accuracy of holiday load forecasting. In the paper, a data selection process incorporating a dominant weather feature is also proposed in order to improve the accuracy of the fuzzy polynomial regression method. The dominant weather feature for selection of historical data is identified by evaluating mutual information between various weather features and loads from season to season. The results of case studies are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 6107608 |
Pages (from-to) | 596-603 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Power Systems |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 May |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received May 28, 2010; revised November 29, 2010, May 11, 2011, and October 12, 2011; accepted October 12, 2011. Date of publication December 16, 2011; date of current version April 18, 2012. This work was supported by the Human Resources Development of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korea government Ministry of Knowledge Economy (No. 20114010203110 and No. 20114010203010). Paper no. TPWRS-00424-2010.
Keywords
- Fuzzy polynomial regression
- Mahalanobis distance
- load forecasting
- mutual information
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering