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- Title
Attention-Focused Machine Learning Method to Provide the Stochastic Load Forecasts Needed by Electric Utilities for the Evolving Electrical Distribution System.
- Authors
O'Donnell, John; Su, Wencong
- Abstract
Greater variation in electrical load should be expected in the future due to the increasing penetration of electric vehicles, photovoltaics, storage, and other technologies. The adoption of these technologies will vary by area and time, and if not identified early and managed by electric utilities, these new customer needs could result in power quality, reliability, and protection issues. Furthermore, comprehensively studying the uncertainty and variation in the load on circuit elements over periods of several months has the potential to increase the efficient use of traditional resources, non-wires alternatives, and microgrids to better serve customers. To increase the understanding of electrical load, the authors propose a multistep, attention-focused, and efficient machine learning process to provide probabilistic forecasts of distribution transformer load for several months into the future. The method uses the solar irradiance, temperature, dew point, time of day, and other features to achieve up to an 86% coefficient of determination (R2).
- Subjects
ELECTRIC utilities; ELECTRICAL load; DEW point; CIRCUIT elements; MACHINE learning; FORECASTING; ELECTRIC charge
- Publication
Energies (19961073), 2023, Vol 16, Issue 15, p5661
- ISSN
1996-1073
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/en16155661