Probabilistic forecasting of power system imbalance using neural network-based ensembles

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العنوان: Probabilistic forecasting of power system imbalance using neural network-based ensembles
المؤلفون: Van Gompel, Jonas, Claessens, Bert, Develder, Chris
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control, Computer Science - Machine Learning
الوصف: Keeping the balance between electricity generation and consumption is becoming increasingly challenging and costly, mainly due to the rising share of renewables, electric vehicles and heat pumps and electrification of industrial processes. Accurate imbalance forecasts, along with reliable uncertainty estimations, enable transmission system operators (TSOs) to dispatch appropriate reserve volumes, reducing balancing costs. Further, market parties can use these probabilistic forecasts to design strategies that exploit asset flexibility to help balance the grid, generating revenue with known risks. Despite its importance, literature regarding system imbalance (SI) forecasting is limited. Further, existing methods do not focus on situations with high imbalance magnitude, which are crucial to forecast accurately for both TSOs and market parties. Hence, we propose an ensemble of C-VSNs, which are our adaptation of variable selection networks (VSNs). Each minute, our model predicts the imbalance of the current and upcoming two quarter-hours, along with uncertainty estimations on these forecasts. We evaluate our approach by forecasting the imbalance of Belgium, where high imbalance magnitude is defined as $|$SI$| > 500\,$MW (occurs 1.3% of the time in Belgium). For high imbalance magnitude situations, our model outperforms the state-of-the-art by 23.4% (in terms of continuous ranked probability score (CRPS), which evaluates probabilistic forecasts), while also attaining a 6.5% improvement in overall CRPS. Similar improvements are achieved in terms of root-mean-squared error. Additionally, we developed a fine-tuning methodology to effectively include new inputs with limited history in our model. This work was performed in collaboration with Elia (the Belgian TSO) to further improve their imbalance forecasts, demonstrating the relevance of our work.
Comment: One of the co-authors objected with having it on Arxiv already
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14836
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2404.14836
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv