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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,001 Views
21 Pages

28 July 2022

Household power load forecasting plays an important role in the operation and planning of power grids. To address the prediction issue of household power consumption in power grids, this paper chooses a time series of historical power consumption as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,597 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Short-Term Residential Electric Load Forecasting Method Based on Adaptive Load Aggregation and Deep Learning Algorithms

  • Tingting Hou,
  • Rengcun Fang,
  • Jinrui Tang,
  • Ganheng Ge,
  • Dongjun Yang,
  • Jianchao Liu and
  • Wei Zhang

22 November 2021

Short-term residential load forecasting is the precondition of the day-ahead and intra-day scheduling strategy of the household microgrid. Existing short-term electric load forecasting methods are mainly used to obtain regional power load for system-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,935 Views
26 Pages

Substation Related Forecasts of Electrical Energy Storage Systems: Transmission System Operator Requirements

  • Tamara Schröter,
  • André Richter,
  • Jens Götze,
  • André Naumann,
  • Jenny Gronau and
  • Martin Wolter

25 November 2020

The growth in volatile renewable energy (RE) generation is accompanied by an increasing network load and an increasing demand for storage units. Household storage systems and micro power plants, in particular, represent an uncertainty factor for dist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,967 Views
16 Pages

14 August 2018

The forecasting of the load profile of the domestic sector is an area of increased concern for the power grid as it appears in many applications, such as grid operations, demand side management, energy trading, and so forth. Accordingly, a bottom-up...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
4,880 Views
11 Pages

Deep Learning-Assisted Short-Term Load Forecasting for Sustainable Management of Energy in Microgrid

  • Arash Moradzadeh,
  • Hamed Moayyed,
  • Sahar Zakeri,
  • Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo and
  • A. Pedro Aguiar

Nowadays, supplying demand load and maintaining sustainable energy are important issues that have created many challenges in power systems. In these types of problems, short-term load forecasting has been proposed as one of the management and energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,800 Views
29 Pages

HousEEC: Day-Ahead Household Electrical Energy Consumption Forecasting Using Deep Learning

  • Ivana Kiprijanovska,
  • Simon Stankoski,
  • Igor Ilievski,
  • Slobodan Jovanovski,
  • Matjaž Gams and
  • Hristijan Gjoreski

25 May 2020

Short-term load forecasting is integral to the energy planning sector. Various techniques have been employed to achieve effective operation of power systems and efficient market management. We present a scalable system for day-ahead household electri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,188 Views
17 Pages

Demand side management has a vital role in supporting the demand response in smart grid infrastructure, in the decision-making of energy management, in household applications is significantly affected by the load-forecasting accuracy. This paper intr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,046 Views
30 Pages

A Modular Framework for Optimal Load Scheduling under Price-Based Demand Response Scheme in Smart Grid

  • Ghulam Hafeez,
  • Noor Islam,
  • Ammar Ali,
  • Salman Ahmad,
  • Muhammad Usman and
  • Khurram Saleem Alimgeer

1 August 2019

With the emergence of the smart grid (SG), real-time interaction is favorable for both residents and power companies in optimal load scheduling to alleviate electricity cost and peaks in demand. In this paper, a modular framework is introduced for ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,590 Views
18 Pages

30 September 2022

As the access to consumption data available in household smart meters is now very common in several developed countries, this kind of information is assuming a providential role for different players in the energy sector. The proposed study was appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
201 Citations
12,610 Views
19 Pages

Electric Vehicle Charging Load Forecasting: A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Approaches

  • Juncheng Zhu,
  • Zhile Yang,
  • Monjur Mourshed,
  • Yuanjun Guo,
  • Yimin Zhou,
  • Yan Chang,
  • Yanjie Wei and
  • Shengzhong Feng

13 July 2019

Load forecasting is one of the major challenges of power system operation and is crucial to the effective scheduling for economic dispatch at multiple time scales. Numerous load forecasting methods have been proposed for household and commercial dema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
822 Views
29 Pages

Ultra-Short-Term Forecasting-Based Optimization for Proactive Home Energy Management

  • Siqi Liu,
  • Zhiyuan Xie,
  • Zhengwei Hu,
  • Kaisa Zhang,
  • Weidong Gao and
  • Xuewen Liu

23 July 2025

With the increasing integration of renewable energy and smart technologies in residential energy systems, proactive household energy management (HEM) have become critical for reducing costs, enhancing grid stability, and achieving sustainability goal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,032 Views
17 Pages

17 May 2022

Electric load management through continuous monitoring and intelligent controlling has become a pressing requirement, particularly in light of rising electrical energy costs. The main purpose of this work is to realize a low-voltage electrical distri...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,225 Views
7 Pages

Limitation of Deep-Learning Algorithm for Prediction of Power Consumption

  • Majdi Frikha,
  • Khaled Taouil,
  • Ahmed Fakhfakh and
  • Faouzi Derbel

In recent years, electricity consumption has become high due to the use of several domestic applications in the house. On the other hand, there is a trend of using renewable energy in many houses, such as solar energy, energy-storage systems and elec...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,860 Views
21 Pages

24 November 2018

Renewable energy sources, on one hand, are environmentally friendly, but on the other, they suffer from volatility in power generation, which endangers power-grid stability. A viable solution to circumvent the intermittent behavior of renewables is t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,988 Views
22 Pages

21 June 2024

Short-term load forecasting plays a crucial role in managing the energy consumption of buildings in cities. Accurate forecasting enables residents to reduce energy waste and facilitates timely decision-making for power companies’ energy managem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,409 Views
16 Pages

22 December 2024

Accurate residential load forecasting is crucial for the stable operation of the energy internet, which plays a significant role in advancing sustainable development. As the construction of the energy internet progresses, the proportion of residentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
425 Views
31 Pages

Sustainable Optimization of Residential Electricity Consumption Using Predictive Modeling and Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

  • Nashitah Alwaz,
  • Muhammad Mehran Bashir,
  • Attique Ur Rehman,
  • Israr Ullah and
  • Micheal Galea

14 December 2025

To ensure reliable, efficient and sustainable operation of modern power networks, accurate load forecasting is an important task in system planning and control. It is also a crucial task for the efficient operation of smart grids to maintain a balanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,624 Views
21 Pages

13 May 2019

In most smart grids, load management techniques are required to handle multiple loads of several types. This paper studies decentralized demand-side management (DSM) in a grid with different types of appliances in two service areas: one with many res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,108 Views
18 Pages

Short-Term Forecasting of Total Aggregate Demand in Uncontrolled Residential Charging with Electric Vehicles Using Artificial Neural Networks

  • Giovanni Panegossi Formaggio,
  • Mauro de Souza Tonelli-Neto,
  • Danieli Biagi Vilela and
  • Anna Diva Plasencia Lotufo

Electric vehicles are gaining attention and being adopted by new users every day. Their widespread use creates a new scenario and challenge for the energy system due to the high energy storage demands they generate. Forecasting these loads using arti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,017 Views
16 Pages

18 December 2018

The ability to predict consumption is an essential tool for the management of a power distribution network. The availability of an advanced metering infrastructure through smart meters makes it possible to produce consumption forecasts down to the le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,976 Views
28 Pages

Accurately forecasting load profiles, especially peak catching, is a challenge due to the stochastic nature of consumption. In this paper, we applied the following three models for forecasting: Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM); Support Vector Regression...

  • Article
  • Open Access
623 Views
19 Pages

29 May 2025

Air conditioning loads in power systems exhibit spatiotemporal heterogeneity across geographical regions, complicating accurate load forecasting. This study proposes a framework that integrates Deep Reinforcement Learning-guided DBSCAN (DRL-DBSCAN) c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,048 Views
19 Pages

10 February 2019

The progress of technology on energy and IoT fields has led to an increasingly complicated electric environment in low-voltage local microgrid, along with the extensions of electric vehicle, micro-generation, and local storage. It is required to esta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,191 Views
18 Pages

A PSO-Optimized Fuzzy Logic Control-Based Charging Method for Individual Household Battery Storage Systems within a Community

  • Yu-Shan Cheng,
  • Yi-Hua Liu,
  • Holger C. Hesse,
  • Maik Naumann,
  • Cong Nam Truong and
  • Andreas Jossen

23 February 2018

Self-consumption of household photovoltaic (PV) storage systems has become profitable for residential owners under the trends of limited feed-in power and decreasing PV feed-in tariffs. For individual PV-storage systems, the challenge mainly lies in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
9,174 Views
20 Pages

Medium-Term Regional Electricity Load Forecasting through Machine Learning and Deep Learning

  • Navid Shirzadi,
  • Ameer Nizami,
  • Mohammadali Khazen and
  • Mazdak Nik-Bakht

6 April 2021

Due to severe climate change impact on electricity consumption, as well as new trends in smart grids (such as the use of renewable resources and the advent of prosumers and energy commons), medium-term and long-term electricity load forecasting has b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,895 Views
17 Pages

Enhancing Short-Term Electrical Load Forecasting for Sustainable Energy Management in Low-Carbon Buildings

  • Meshari D. Alanazi,
  • Ahmad Saeed,
  • Muhammad Islam,
  • Shabana Habib,
  • Hammad I. Sherazi,
  • Sheroz Khan and
  • Mohammad Munawar Shees

15 December 2023

Accurate short-term forecasting of electrical energy loads is essential for optimizing energy management in low-carbon buildings. This research presents an innovative two-stage model designed to address the unique challenges of Electricity Load Forec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
588 Views
20 Pages

Virtual Energy Replication Framework for Predicting Residential PV Power, Heat Pump Load, and Thermal Comfort Using Weather Forecast Data

  • Daud Mustafa Minhas,
  • Muhammad Usman,
  • Irtaza Bashir Raja,
  • Aneela Wakeel,
  • Muzaffar Ali and
  • Georg Frey

22 September 2025

It is essential to balance energy supply and demand in residential buildings through accurate forecasting of energy use due to varying daily and seasonal residential building loads. This study demonstrates a data-driven Virtual Energy Replication Fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,098 Views
15 Pages

27 October 2021

Providing a stable, low-price, and safe supply of energy to end-users is a challenging task. The energy service providers are affected by several events such as weather, volatility, and special events. As such, the prediction of these events and havi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,656 Views
24 Pages

2 March 2020

Over the past decade, energy forecasting applications not only on the grid side of electric power systems but also on the customer side for load and demand prediction purposes have become ubiquitous after the advancements in the smart grid technologi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,085 Views
16 Pages

20 December 2024

This research introduces an original approach to time series forecasting through the use of multi-scale convolutional neural networks with Transformer modules. The objective is to focus on the limitations of short-term load forecasting in terms of co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
287 Views
25 Pages

A Genetic Algorithm-Based Home Energy Management Framework for Optimizing User-Dependent Flexible Loads

  • João Tabanêz Patrício,
  • Francisco Januário Silva,
  • Rui Amaral Lopes,
  • Nuno Amaro and
  • João Martins

23 December 2025

This paper presents a Genetic Algorithm-based Home Energy Management System designed to exploit the energy flexibility of user-dependent loads by identifying and recommending optimal operating schedules that minimize electricity costs. To determine t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,252 Views
23 Pages

27 September 2021

An efficient energy management system is integrated with the power grid to collect information about the energy consumption and provide the appropriate control to optimize the supply–demand pattern. Therefore, there is a need for intelligent decision...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,423 Views
16 Pages

31 October 2022

Short-term load forecasting is a prerequisite and basis for power system planning and operation and has received extensive attention from researchers. To address the problem of concept drift caused by changes in the distribution patterns of electrici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,643 Views
22 Pages

Sizing PV and BESS for Grid-Connected Microgrid Resilience: A Data-Driven Hybrid Optimization Approach

  • Mahtab Murshed,
  • Manohar Chamana,
  • Konrad Erich Kork Schmitt,
  • Suhas Pol,
  • Olatunji Adeyanju and
  • Stephen Bayne

27 October 2023

This article presents a comprehensive data-driven approach on enhancing grid-connected microgrid grid resilience through advanced forecasting and optimization techniques in the context of power outages. Power outages pose significant challenges to mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,835 Views
22 Pages

13 November 2019

The concept of price elasticity of demand has been widely used for the assessment of the consumers’ behavior in the electricity market. As the residential consumers represent a significant percentage of the total load, price elasticity of their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,099 Views
18 Pages

8 April 2023

Residential electricity consumption forecasting plays a crucial role in the rational allocation of resources reducing energy waste and enhancing the grid-connected operation of power systems. Probabilistic forecasting can provide more comprehensive i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,809 Views
14 Pages

Development of Stand-Alone Green Hybrid System for Rural Areas

  • Solomon Kiros,
  • Baseem Khan,
  • Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban,
  • Hassan Haes Alhelou,
  • Zbigniew Leonowicz,
  • Om Prakash Mahela and
  • Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen

Despite the tremendous efforts exhibited by various utilities around the world during the past few years, there are still exceedingly many remote regions unreached by the electrical grid. For those regions, the enormous available potential of renewab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,510 Views
30 Pages

10 January 2025

The energy sector plays a vital role in driving environmental and social advancements. Accurately predicting energy demand across various time frames offers numerous benefits, such as facilitating a sustainable transition and planning of energy resou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,774 Views
15 Pages

Multi-Agent Optimization for Residential Demand Response under Real-Time Pricing

  • Zhanle Wang,
  • Raman Paranjape,
  • Zhikun Chen and
  • Kai Zeng

25 July 2019

Demand response (DR) programs encourage consumers to adapt the time of using electricity based on certain factors, such as cost of electricity, renewable energy availability, and ancillary request. It is one of the most economical methods to improve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
621 Views
19 Pages

Enhancing Load Stratification in Power Distribution Systems Through Clustering Algorithms: A Practical Study

  • Williams Mendoza-Vitonera,
  • Xavier Serrano-Guerrero,
  • María-Fernanda Cabrera,
  • John Enriquez-Loja and
  • Antonio Barragán-Escandón

9 October 2025

Accurate load profile identification is crucial for effective and sustainable power system planning. This study proposes a characterization methodology based on clustering techniques applied to consumption data from medium- and low-voltage users, as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
193 Citations
4,240 Views
19 Pages

Long Short-Term Memory Network-Based Metaheuristic for Effective Electric Energy Consumption Prediction

  • Simran Kaur Hora,
  • Rachana Poongodan,
  • Rocío Pérez de Prado,
  • Marcin Wozniak and
  • Parameshachari Bidare Divakarachari

27 November 2021

The Electric Energy Consumption Prediction (EECP) is a complex and important process in an intelligent energy management system and its importance has been increasing rapidly due to technological developments and human population growth. A reliable a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,659 Views
11 Pages

The charging of batteries of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles at home at standard outlets has an impact on the distribution grid which may require serious investments in grid expansion. The coordination of the charging gives an improvement of the gri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,446 Views
26 Pages

The Regulatory Framework for Market Transparency in Future Power Systems under the Web-of-Cells Concept

  • Viktorija Bobinaite,
  • Marialaura Di Somma,
  • Giorgio Graditi and
  • Irina Oleinikova

6 March 2019

This paper investigates the regulatory rules of market transparency which could be applied within the wholesale electricity market and market for frequency and voltage control in the Web-of-Cells (WoC) decentralized power control architecture, which...