Long-Term Electrical Load Forecasting in Rwanda Based on Support Vector Machine Enhanced with Q-SVM Optimization Kernel Function

In recent years, Rwanda’s rapid economic development has created the “Rwanda Africa Wonder”, but it has also led to a substantial increase in energy consumption with the ambitious goal of reaching universal access by 2024. Meanwhile, on the basis of the rapid and dynamic connection of new households, there is uncertainty about generating, importing, and exporting energy whichever imposes a significant barrier. Long-Term Load Forecasting (LTLF) will be a key to the country’s utility plan to examine the dynamic electrical load demand growth patterns and facilitate long-term planning for better and more accurate power system master plan expansion. However, a Support Vector Machine (SVM) for long-term electric load forecasting is presented in this paper for accurate load mix planning. Considering that an individual forecasting model usually cannot work properly for LTLF, a hybrid Q-SVM will be introduced to improve forecasting accuracy. Finally, effectively assess model performance and efficiency, error metrics, and model benchmark parameters there assessed. The case study demonstrates that the new strategy is quite useful to improve LTLF accuracy. The historical electric load data of Rwanda Energy Group (REG), a national utility company from 1998 to 2020 was used to test the forecast model. The simulation results demonstrate the proposed algorithm enhanced better forecasting accuracy.

Spatial and temporal synthesized probability gain for middle and long-term earthquake forecast and its preliminary application

The principle of middle and long-term earthquake forecast model of spatial and temporal synthesized probability gain and the evaluation of forecast efficiency (R-values) of various forecast methods are introduced in this paper. The R-value method, developed by Xu (1989), is further developed here, and can be applied to more complicated cases. Probability gains in spatial and/or temporal domains and the R-values for different forecast methods are estimated in North China. The synthesized probability gain is then estimated as an example.

Long Term Load Forecasting and Recommendations for China Based on Support Vector Regression

Long-term load forecasting (LTLF) is a challenging task because of the complex relationships between load and factors affecting load. However, it is crucial for the economic growth of fast developing countries like China as the growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to be 7.5%, according to China’s 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010). In this paper, LTLF with an economic factor, GDP, is implemented. A support vector regression (SVR) is applied as the training algorithm to obtain the nonlinear relationship between load and the economic factor GDP to improve the accuracy of forecasting.

Short-Term and Long-Term Price Forecasting Models for the Future Exchange of Mongolian Natural Sea Buckthorn Market

Sea buckthorn market floated uncertainly within a narrow range. The market situation provided upward pressure on prices, and producer and consumer interest were poor, coupled with weak prices in the regional markets. The objectives of the study are: 1) to estimate the relationship between wild Sea buckthorn (SB) price and Supply, Demand, while some other factors of crude oil price and exchange rate by using simultaneous Supply-Demand and Price system equation and Vector Error Correction Method (VECM);2) to forecast the short-term and long-term SB price;3) to compare and evaluate the price forecasting models. Firstly, the data was analyzed by Ferris and Engle-Granger’s procedure;secondly, both price forecasting methodologies were tested by Pindyck-Rubinfeld and Makridakis’s procedure. The result shows that the VECM model is more efficient using yearly data;a short-term price forecast decreases, and a long-term price forecast is predicted to increase the Mongolian Sea buckthorn market.

Stock Price Forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks Long Short-Term Memory: A Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Literature Review

This study maps the academic literature on Stock Price Forecasting with Long-Term Memory Artificial Neural Networks—RNA LSTM. The objective is to know if it is suitable for time series studies, especially for stock price projection. Through bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review, it is observed that 333 authors wrote on the topic between 2018 and March 2022, and the journals Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Access, Big Data Journal and Neural Computing and Applications, published the most relevant articles. Of the 99 articles published in this period, 43 are associated with Chinese institutions, the most cited being that of Kim and Won, who studies the volatility of returns and the market capitalization of South Korean stocks. The basis of 65% of the studies is the comparison between the RNN LSTM and other artificial neural networks. The daily closing price of shares is the most analyzed type of data, and the American (21%) and Chinese (20%) stock exchanges are the most studied. 57% of the studies include improvements to existing neural network models and 42% new projection models.

Long-Term Load Forecasting of Southern Governorates of Jordan Distribution Electric System

Load forecasting is vitally important for electric industry in the deregulated economy. This paper aims to face the power crisis and to achieve energy security in Jordan. Our participation is localized in the southern parts of Jordan including, Ma’an, Karak and Aqaba. The available statistical data about the load of southern part of Jordan are supplied by electricity Distribution Company. Mathematical and statistical methods attempted to forecast future demand by determining trends of past results and use the trends to extrapolate the curve demand in the future.

A Combined Method of Temporal Convolutional Mechanism and Wavelet Decomposition for State Estimation of Photovoltaic Power Plants

Time series prediction has always been an important problem in the field of machine learning.Among them,power load forecasting plays a crucial role in identifying the behavior of photovoltaic power plants and regulating their control strategies.Traditional power load forecasting often has poor feature extraction performance for long time series.In this paper,a new deep learning framework Residual Stacked Temporal Long Short-Term Memory(RST-LSTM)is proposed,which combines wavelet decomposition and time convolutional memory network to solve the problem of feature extraction for long sequences.The network framework of RST-LSTM consists of two parts:one is a stacked time convolutional memory unit module for global and local feature extraction,and the other is a residual combination optimization module to reduce model redundancy.Finally,this paper demonstrates through various experimental indicators that RST-LSTM achieves significant performance improvements in both overall and local prediction accuracy compared to some state-of-the-art baseline methods.

Long-term Energy Demand and CO_2 Problem in the PRC

The long-term energy demand in China and the-Chinese share in global CO2 emission are forecasted on the basis of scenarios of population growth and economy development up to 2050 proposed in view of the interaction of energy, economy, environment and social development. The total energy demand in 2050 will reach 4.4~ 5.4 billion tce. It is shown in energy supply analysis that coal is China’s major energy in primary energy supply. The share of CO2 emission in the future Chinese energy system will be out of proportion to its energy consumption share because of the high persentage of coal to be consumed. It will reach about 27%. The nuclear option which would replace 30.7% of coal in the total primary energy supply will reduce the share by 9.8%. So the policy considerations on the future Chinese energy system is of great importance to the global CO2 issues.

Study of Holocene glacier degradation in central Asia by isotopic methods for long-term forecast of climate changes

This article presents a summary of our studies of Holocene moraines and glaciers of the Tien-Shan, Pamir, and Himalaya moun- mills with the purpose of providing pattern regularity of the Holocene glaciation decomposition. We developed a method for ob- taining reliable radiocarbon dating of moraines with the use of autochthonous organic matter dispersed in fine-grained morainic material, as well there were shown new possibilities of isotope-oxygen and isotope-uranium analysis for the Holocene glaciations dynamics. We found that Holocene glaciations disintegrate stadiaUy according to the decaying principle, and seven main stages may be distinguished. We achieved the absolute dating of the first three stages, identifying these periods as 8,000, 5,000, and 3,400 years ago. The application of the above-mentioned isotope methods of the Holocene glaciations and moraines study will allow re- searchers to improve the offered model of the Holocene glaciations disintegration; it will be great contribution to salvation of the problem of long-term climatic and glaciations forecast.

Long-term Prediction and Verification of Rainfall Based on the Seasonal Model

Using the seasonal cross-multiplication trend model, monthly precipitation of eight national basic weather stations of Shaanxi Province from 2005 to 2010 was predicted, and the forecast results were verified using the rainfall scoring rules of China Meteorological Administration. The verification results show that the average score of annual precipitation prediction in recent six years is higher than that made by a professional forecaster, so this model has a good prospect of application. Moreover, the level of making prediction is steady, and it can be widely used in long-term prediction of rainfall.

Nonlinear Differential Equation of Macroeconomic Dynamics for Long-Term Forecasting of Economic Development

In this article we derive a general differential equation that describes long-term economic growth in terms of cyclical and trend components. Equation is based on the model of non-linear accelerator of induced investment. A scheme is proposed for obtaining approximate solutions of nonlinear differential equation by splitting solution into the rapidly oscillating business cycles and slowly varying trend using Krylov-Bogoliubov-Mitropolsky averaging. Simplest modes of the economic system are described. Characteristics of the bifurcation point are found and bifurcation phenomenon is interpreted as loss of stability making the economic system available to structural change and accepting innovations. System being in a nonequilibrium state has a dynamics with self-sustained undamped oscillations. The model is verified with economic development of the US during the fifth Kondratieff cycle (1982-2010). Model adequately describes real process of economic growth in both quantitative and qualitative aspects. It is one of major results that the model gives a rough estimation of critical points of system stability loss and falling into a crisis recession. The model is used to forecast the macroeconomic dynamics of the US during the sixth Kondratieff cycle (2018-2050). For this forecast we use fixed production capital functional dependence on a long-term Kondratieff cycle and medium-term Juglar and Kuznets cycles. More accurate estimations of the time of crisis and recession are based on the model of accelerating log-periodic oscillations. The explosive growth of the prices of highly liquid commodities such as gold and oil is taken as real predictors of the global financial crisis. The second wave of crisis is expected to come in June 2011.

Deep Learning for Wind Speed Forecasting Using Bi-LSTM with Selected Features

Wind speed forecasting is important for wind energy forecasting.In the modern era,the increase in energy demand can be managed effectively by fore-casting the wind speed accurately.The main objective of this research is to improve the performance of wind speed forecasting by handling uncertainty,the curse of dimensionality,overfitting and non-linearity issues.The curse of dimensionality and overfitting issues are handled by using Boruta feature selec-tion.The uncertainty and the non-linearity issues are addressed by using the deep learning based Bi-directional Long Short Term Memory(Bi-LSTM).In this paper,Bi-LSTM with Boruta feature selection named BFS-Bi-LSTM is proposed to improve the performance of wind speed forecasting.The model identifies relevant features for wind speed forecasting from the meteorological features using Boruta wrapper feature selection(BFS).Followed by Bi-LSTM predicts the wind speed by considering the wind speed from the past and future time steps.The proposed BFS-Bi-LSTM model is compared against Multilayer perceptron(MLP),MLP with Boruta(BFS-MLP),Long Short Term Memory(LSTM),LSTM with Boruta(BFS-LSTM)and Bi-LSTM in terms of Root Mean Square Error(RMSE),Mean Absolute Error(MAE),Mean Square Error(MSE)and R2.The BFS-Bi-LSTM surpassed other models by producing RMSE of 0.784,MAE of 0.530,MSE of 0.615 and R2 of 0.8766.The experimental result shows that the BFS-Bi-LSTM produced better forecasting results compared to others.

Optimal Scheme with Load Forecasting for Demand Side Management (DSM) in Residential Areas

Utilities around the world have been considering Demand Side Management (DSM) in their strategic planning. The costs of constructing and operating a new capacity generation unit are increasing everyday as well as Transmission and distribution and land issues for new generation plants, which force the utilities to search for another alternatives without any additional constraints on customers comfort level or quality of delivered product. De can be defined as the selection, planning, and implementation of measures intended to have an influence on the demand or customer-side of the electric meter, either caused directly or stimulated indirectly by the utility. DSM programs are peak clipping, Valley filling, Load shifting, Load building, energy conservation and flexible load shape. The main Target of this paper is to show the relation between DSM and Load Forecasting. Moreover, it highlights on the effect of applying DSM on Forecasted demands and how this affects the planning strategies for utility companies. This target will be clearly illustrated through applying the developed algorithm in this paper on an existing residential compound in Cairo-Egypt.

Deep Learning Network for Energy Storage Scheduling in Power Market Environment Short-Term Load Forecasting Model

In the electricity market,fluctuations in real-time prices are unstable,and changes in short-term load are determined by many factors.By studying the timing of charging and discharging,as well as the economic benefits of energy storage in the process of participating in the power market,this paper takes energy storage scheduling as merely one factor affecting short-term power load,which affects short-term load time series along with time-of-use price,holidays,and temperature.A deep learning network is used to predict the short-term load,a convolutional neural network(CNN)is used to extract the features,and a long short-term memory(LSTM)network is used to learn the temporal characteristics of the load value,which can effectively improve prediction accuracy.Taking the load data of a certain region as an example,the CNN-LSTM prediction model is compared with the single LSTM prediction model.The experimental results show that the CNN-LSTM deep learning network with the participation of energy storage in dispatching can have high prediction accuracy for short-term power load forecasting.

结合太阳辐射量计算与CNN-LSTM组合的光伏功率预测方法研究

为了提高模型预测性能,提出一种综合太阳辐射模型及深度学习的光伏功率预测模型。首先,利用太阳辐射机理建立太阳辐射模型(SRM),估算出水平面上总辐射值,再由斜面辐照度转换方法计算出光伏组件所接收的斜面辐射值。其次,通过皮尔逊相关分析法筛选出对光伏功率影响较大的主要因素,将斜面辐射计算值及主要影响因素作为输入,采用卷积神经网络(CNN)和长短期记忆网络(LSTM)建立光伏功率SRM-CNN-LSTM预测模型。分别利用春夏秋冬四季典型日的数据开展对比实验,结果表明:与几种其他方法相比,该文方法具有更好的预测效果。

基于CEEMD-SE的CNN&LSTM-GRU短期风电功率预测

为进一步提升短期风电功率的预测精度,提出了一种基于互补集合经验模态分解-样本熵(complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition-sample entropy,CEEMD-SE)的卷积神经网络(convolutional neural network,CNN)和长短期记忆-门控循环单元(longshorttermmemory-gatedrecurrentunit,LSTM-GRU)的短期风电功率预测模型。首先,利用互补集合经验模态分解将原始风电功率序列分解为若干本征模态函数(intrinsic mode function,IMF)分量和一个残差(residual,RES)分量,利用样本熵算法将相近的分量进行重构;其次,搭建卷积神经网络和长短期记忆网络的并行网络结构,提取数据的局部特征和时序特征,并将特征融合后输入门控循环单元网络中进行学习预测;最后,通过算例进行验证,结果表明采用该模型后预测精度得到了有效提升,其均方根误差降低了15.06%、平均绝对误差降低了15.22%、决定系数提高了1.91%。

基于双层优化VMD-LSTM的农村超短期电力负荷预测

稳定的供电是农村发展建设的有力保障,而电力负荷水平是建设效果的重要衡量标准,因此建立精确的负荷预测模型可以更准确直观显现电力负荷情况,为供电公司制定决策提供有力支撑。由于LSTM负荷预测模型在数据预测方面存在收敛性差、预测精度不高等问题,为提高模型的预测精度,提出一种基于双层优化VMD-LSTM的超短期电力负荷预测方法。首先提出麻雀算法优化变分模态分解(sparrow variational mode decomposition,SVMD),通过SVMD将原始数据转化为模态分量(intrinsic mode functions,IMF);其次采用改进樽海鞘群算法(association salp swarm algorithm,ASSSA)优化LSTM模型。通过引入4种策略增强标准樽海鞘算法优化能力;最后将各模态分量分别代入到新模型并进行叠加预测。选取辽宁省某市某乡村10kV变压器真实历史负荷数据,以均方根误差(RMSE)、平均绝对误差(MAE)、平均绝对百分比误差(MAPE)、拟合度(R^(2))作为评价指标,并与其他基础预测模型进行对比,结果表明,改进后的算法在计算精度、稳定性方面均优于其他基础预测模型。

基于聚类的HPO-BILSTM光伏功率短期预测

考虑到光伏发电功率在不同天气类型下的波动性和不确定性,对此提出一种基于模糊C均值聚类算法(FCM)和猎食者优化算法(HPO)优化双向长短期记忆网络(BILSTM)的光伏发电短期功率预测模型。首先对光伏发电数据进行处理和分析,再进行主成分分析(PCA)降维和FCM聚类算法将数据按天气类型分为阴、晴、雨;最后通过HPO筛选得出BILSTM神经网络的最佳超参数,避免因超参数设置不佳对实验带来的影响,进一步提高实验的准确性和模型的泛化能力。最后通过预测和对比实验进行分析,验证所提方法的优越性。

基于集群辨识和卷积神经网络-双向长短期记忆-时序模式注意力机制的区域级短期负荷预测

为了解决区域级短期电力负荷预测时输入特征过多和负荷时序性较强的问题,提出一种基于集群辨识和卷积神经网络(convolutional neural networks,CNN)-双向长短期记忆网络(bi-directional long short-term memory,BiLSTM)-时序模式注意力机制(temporal pattern attention,TPA)的预测方法。首先,将用电模式和天气作为影响因素,基于二阶聚类算法对区域内的负荷节点进行集群辨识,再从每个集群中挑选代表特征作为深度学习模型的输入,这样既能减少输入特征维度,降低计算复杂度,又能综合考虑预测区域的整体特征,提升预测精度。然后,针对区域电力负荷时序性的特点,用CNN-BiLSTM-TPA模型完成训练和预测,该模型能提取输入数据的双向信息生成隐状态矩阵,并对隐状态矩阵的重要特征加权,从多时间步上捕获双向时序信息用于预测。最后,在美国加利福尼亚州实例上分析验证了所提方法的有效性。

基于多模型融合的中长期径流集成预测方法

中长期水文预报是流域水资源规划与合理配置的重要依据。为提高中长期径流预测精度,提出了一种基于多模型融合的水库中长期径流集成预测方法。该方法将ARMA、BP、LSTM、RF和SVR等5个异质预测模型进行融合,同时采用超参数优化方法确定各模型的最优参数。将其用于青海省龙羊峡水库的中长期径流预报中,结果表明,通过Stacking融合算法建立的集成预测模型相较于单一模型,取得了更高的预测精度(R2值由0.71提升至0.82)。此方法可为提升流域中长期径流预测精度提供一定参考。