Advanced Load Forecasting Technologies for Power Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The global energy transition, driven by the urgency of the climate crisis, is reshaping the power generation landscape and altering the energy mix. As renewable energy sources expand rapidly, the need for systematic power system planning and stable operation has become more critical than ever. The accurate forecasting of both demand and generation—including intermittent renewable resources—has emerged as a key enabler for effective power system operation and planning.

This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in energy forecasting methodologies and their practical applications. We invite the submission of high-quality original research articles, review papers, and technical papers that address the challenges of forecasting power demand and generation with nonlinear and uncertain characteristics, leveraging both traditional statistical methods and modern machine learning techniques.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• All aspects of energy forecasting’
• Very short-term, short-term, medium-term, and long-term load forecasting;
• Very short-term, short-term, medium-term, and long-term renewable energy forecasting;
• Energy consumption forecasting over various time horizons;
• Machine learning-based forecasting approaches;
• Artificial intelligence techniques, including support vector machines (SVM), fuzzy inference systems, and artificial neural networks (ANN);
• Statistical forecasting models;
• Probabilistic and uncertainty-aware forecasting methods;
• Forecasting for regional integrated energy systems;
• Forecasting that incorporates behind-the-meter (BTM) generation;
• Economic impact analysis of forecasting accuracy;
• Development and application of advanced forecasting models.

We look forward to your contributions that advance the state of the art in load and energy forecasting for modern power systems.

Prof. Dr. Kyung-Bin Song
Dr. Young-Min Wi
Guest Editors

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