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An Ensemble Model Based on Machine Learning Methods and Data Preprocessing for Short-Term Electric Load Forecasting

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  • Yanbing Lin

    (School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

  • Hongyuan Luo

    (School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

  • Deyun Wang

    (School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
    Mineral Resource Strategy and Policy Research Center, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

  • Haixiang Guo

    (School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
    Mineral Resource Strategy and Policy Research Center, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

  • Kejun Zhu

    (School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China)

Abstract

The experience with deregulated electricity market has shown the increasingly important role of short-term electric load forecasting in the energy producing and scheduling. However, because of nonlinear, stochastic and nonstable characteristics associated with the electric load series, it is extremely difficult to precisely forecast the electric load. This paper aims to establish a novel ensemble model based on variational mode decomposition (VMD) and extreme learning machine (ELM) optimized by differential evolution (DE) algorithm for multi-step ahead electric load forecasting. The proposed model is novel in the sense that VMD is firstly applied to decompose the original electric load series into a set of components with different frequencies in order to effectively eliminate the stochastic fluctuation characteristic so as to improve the overall prediction accuracy. The proposed ensemble model is tested using two electric load series collected from New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland (QLD) in the Australian electricity market. The experimental results show that: (1) the data preprocessing by VMD can effectively decrease the stochastic fluctuation characteristics that existed in the electric load series, consequently improving the whole forecasting accuracy, and; (2) the proposed forecasting model performs better than all other benchmark models for both one-step and multi-step ahead electric load forecasting.

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  • Yanbing Lin & Hongyuan Luo & Deyun Wang & Haixiang Guo & Kejun Zhu, 2017. "An Ensemble Model Based on Machine Learning Methods and Data Preprocessing for Short-Term Electric Load Forecasting," Energies, MDPI, vol. 10(8), pages 1-16, August.
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