Energies,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
18(1), P. 2 - 2
Published: Dec. 24, 2024
The
increasing
share
of
renewable
energies
within
energy
systems
leads
to
an
increase
in
complexity.
growing
complexity
is
due
the
diversity
technologies,
ongoing
technological
innovations,
and
fluctuating
electricity
production.
To
continue
ensure
a
secure,
economical,
needs-based
supply,
additional
information
needed
efficiently
control
these
systems.
This
impacts
public
industrial
supply
systems,
such
as
vehicle
factories.
paper
examines
influencing
factors
applicability
Temporal
Fusion
Transformer
(TFT)
model
for
weekly
demand
forecast
at
automobile
production
site.
Seven
different
TFT
models
were
trained
demand.
Six
predicted
electricity,
heat,
natural
gas.
Three
used
rolling
day-ahead
forecast,
three
entire
week
one
step.
In
seventh
model,
was
again,
with
target
values
being
same
model.
analysis
shows
that
forecasting
method
MAPE
13%
already
delivers
good
results
predicting
electrical
prediction
accuracy
achieved
sufficient
use
outcomes
basis
operational
planning
reporting.
However,
further
improvements
are
still
required
automated
system
reduce
procurement
costs.
heat
gas
demands
show
too
high
deviations,
62%
39%
accurately
predict
demands,
must
be
identified
explain
Energy Informatics,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
6(S1)
Published: Oct. 19, 2023
Abstract
In
the
smart
grid
of
future,
accurate
load
forecasts
on
level
individual
clients
can
help
to
balance
supply
and
demand
locally
prevent
outages.
While
number
monitored
will
increase
with
ongoing
meter
rollout,
amount
data
per
client
always
be
limited.
We
evaluate
whether
a
Transformer
forecasting
model
benefits
from
transfer
learning
strategy,
where
global
univariate
is
trained
time
series
multiple
clients.
experiments
two
datasets
containing
several
hundred
clients,
we
find
that
training
strategy
superior
multivariate
local
strategies
used
in
related
work.
On
average,
results
21.8%
12.8%
lower
errors
than
other
strategies,
measured
across
horizons
one
day
month
into
future.
A
comparison
linear
models,
multi-layer
perceptrons
LSTMs
shows
Transformers
are
effective
for
when
they
strategy.
IET Smart Grid,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
7(4), P. 460 - 472
Published: April 26, 2024
Abstract
Measures
for
balancing
the
electrical
grid,
such
as
peak
shaving,
require
accurate
forecasts
lower
aggregation
levels
of
loads.
Thus,
Big
Data
Energy
Analytics
Laboratory
(BigDEAL)
challenge—organised
by
BigDEAL—focused
on
forecasting
three
different
daily
characteristics
in
low
aggregated
load
time
series.
In
particular,
participants
challenge
were
asked
to
provide
long‐term
with
horizons
up
1
year
qualification.
The
authors
present
approach
KIT‐IAI
team
from
Institute
Automation
and
Applied
Informatics
at
Karlsruhe
Technology.
is
based
a
hybrid
generative
model.
use
conditional
Invertible
Neural
Network
(cINN).
cINN
gets
forecast
sliding
mean
representative
trend,
weather
features,
calendar
information
conditioning
input.
By
this,
proposed
method
achieved
second
place
overall
won
two
out
tracks
BigDEAL
challenge.
Increasingly,
homeowners
opt
for
photovoltaic
(PV)
systems
and/or
battery
storage
to
minimize
their
energy
bills
and
maximize
renewable
usage.
This
has
spurred
the
development
of
advanced
control
algorithms
that
maximally
achieve
those
goals.
However,
a
common
challenge
faced
while
developing
such
controllers
is
unavailability
accurate
forecasts
household
power
consumption,
especially
shorter
time
resolutions
(15
minutes)
in
data-efficient
manner.
In
this
paper,
we
analyze
how
transfer
learning
can
help
by
exploiting
data
from
multiple
households
improve
single
house's
load
forecasting.
Specifically,
train
an
forecasting
model
(a
temporal
fusion
transformer)
using
different
households,
then
finetune
global
on
new
with
limited
(i.e.,
only
few
days).
The
obtained
models
are
used
consumption
next
24
hours
(day-ahead)
at
resolution
15
minutes,
intention
these
as
Model
Predictive
Control.
We
show
benefit
setup
versus
solely
individual
household's
data,
both
terms
real-world
data.
Mathematics,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
12(1), P. 19 - 19
Published: Dec. 21, 2023
Short-term
load
forecasting
(STLF)
is
crucial
for
the
daily
operation
of
power
grids.
However,
non-linearity,
non-stationarity,
and
randomness
characterizing
electricity
demand
time
series
renders
STLF
a
challenging
task.
Various
approaches
have
been
proposed
improving
STLF,
including
neural
network
(NN)
models
which
are
trained
using
data
from
multiple
that
may
not
necessarily
include
target
series.
In
present
study,
we
investigate
performance
special
case
namely
transfer
learning
(TL),
by
considering
set
27
represent
national
day-ahead
indicative
European
countries.
We
employ
popular
easy-to-implement
feed-forward
NN
model
perform
clustering
analysis
to
identify
similar
patterns
among
enhance
TL.
this
context,
two
different
TL
approaches,
with
without
step,
compiled
compared
against
each
other
as
well
typical
training
setup.
Our
results
demonstrate
can
outperform
conventional
approach,
especially
when
techniques
considered.