Short‐term load demand forecasting through rich features based on recurrent neural networks

Abstract

Abstract With the emerging penetration of renewables and dynamic loads, the understanding of grid edge loading conditions becomes increasingly substantial. Load modelling researches commonly consist of explicitly expressed load models and non‐explicitly expressed techniques, of which artificial intelligence approaches turn out to be the major path. This paper reveals the artificial intelligence‐based load modelling technique to enhance the knowledge of current and future load information considering geographical and weather dependencies. This paper presents a recurrent neural network based sequence to sequence (Seq2Seq) model to forecast the short‐term power loads. Also, a feature attention mechanism, which is along channel and time directions, is developed to improve the efficiency of feature learning. The experiments over three publicly available datasets demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed model.

Keywords

• Power system planning and layout
• Power engineering computing
• Neural nets