Abstract
Successfully determining competitive optimal schedules for electricity generation intimately hinges on the forecasts of loads. The nonstationarity and high volatility of loads make their accurate prediction somewhat problematic. Presence of uncertainty in data also significantly degrades accuracy of point predictions produced by deterministic load forecasting models. Therefore, operation planning utilizing these predictions will be unreliable. This paper aims at developing prediction intervals rather than producing exact point prediction. Prediction intervals are theatrically more reliable and practical than predicted values. The delta and Bayesian techniques for constructing prediction intervals for forecasted loads are implemented here. To objectively and comprehensively assess quality of constructed prediction intervals, a new index based on length and coverage probability of prediction intervals is developed. In experiments with real data, and through calculation of global statistics, it is shown that neural network point prediction performance is unreliable. In contrast, prediction intervals developed using the delta and Bayesian techniques are satisfactorily narrow, with a high coverage probability.
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Khosravi, A., Nahavandi, S., Creighton, D. (2010). Load Forecasting and Neural Networks: A Prediction Interval-Based Perspective. In: Panigrahi, B.K., Abraham, A., Das, S. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Power Engineering. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 302. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14013-6_5
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