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Deep Learning Based on Multi-Decomposition for Short-Term Load Forecasting

  • Seon Hyeog Kim,
  • Gyul Lee,
  • Gu-Young Kwon,
  • Do-In Kim and
  • Yong-June Shin

7 December 2018

Load forecasting is a key issue for efficient real-time energy management in smart grids. To control the load using demand side management accurately, load forecasting should be predicted in the short term. With the advent of advanced measuring infra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Short-Term Load Forecasting by Artificial Intelligent Technologies)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,505 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Level Decomposition and Interpretability-Enhanced Air Conditioning Load Forecasting Study

  • Xinting Yang,
  • Ling Zhang,
  • Hong Zhao,
  • Wenhua Zhang and ,
  • Chuan Long,
  • Gang Wu,
  • Junhao Zhao and
  • Xiaodong Shen
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 November 2024

This study seeks to improve the accuracy of air conditioning load forecasting to address the challenges of load management in power systems during high-temperature periods in the summer. Given the limitations of traditional forecasting models in capt...

(This article belongs to the Topic Short-Term Load Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,015 Views
18 Pages

Flexible Load Multi-Step Forecasting Method Based on Non-Intrusive Load Decomposition

  • Tie Chen,
  • Wenhao Wan,
  • Xianshan Li,
  • Huayuan Qin and
  • Wenwei Yan

Accurate forecasting of flexible loads can capture the potential of their application and improve the adjustable space of the distribution network. Flexible load data, such as air conditioning (AC) and electric vehicles (EV), are generally included i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
292 Views
41 Pages

30 September 2026

Cooling load prediction is essential for energy-efficient HVAC operation and building energy management. In multifunctional buildings, heterogeneous load characteristics across functional zones increase the complexity of total cooling load prediction...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
826 Views
16 Pages

17 September 2025

Household electricity meters equipped with rooftop photovoltaic systems only display net load power data after coupling loads with photovoltaic power, which gives rise to the issue of unknown PV output and load demand. A non-invasive load decompositi...

(This article belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,478 Views
25 Pages

6 September 2024

The sliding window method is commonly used for non-intrusive load disaggregation. However, it is difficult to choose the appropriate window size, and the disaggregation effect is poor in low-frequency industrial environments. To better handle low-fre...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,652 Views
17 Pages

Short-Term Electric Load Forecasting Based on Variational Mode Decomposition and Grey Wolf Optimization

  • Mengran Zhou,
  • Tianyu Hu,
  • Kai Bian,
  • Wenhao Lai and ,
  • Feng Hu,
  • Oumaima Hamrani and
  • Ziwei Zhu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 August 2021

Short-term electric load forecasting plays a significant role in the safe and stable operation of the power system and power market transactions. In recent years, with the development of new energy sources, more and more sources have been integrated...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,654 Views
17 Pages

An Empirical Mode Decomposition-Based Hybrid Model for Sub-Hourly Load Forecasting

  • Chuang Yin,
  • Nan Wei,
  • Jinghang Wu,
  • Chuhong Ruan and ,
  • Xi Luo and
  • Fanhua Zeng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 January 2024

Sub-hourly load forecasting can provide accurate short-term load forecasts, which is important for ensuring a secure operation and minimizing operating costs. Decomposition algorithms are suitable for extracting sub-series and improving forecasts in...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
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  • Open Access
352 Views
26 Pages

A Short-Term Load Forecasting Method Based on Complexity-Component Adaptive Decomposition and Locally Gated Mamba

  • Mengna Luo,
  • Jintao Wu,
  • Liming Zheng,
  • Ruibiao Xie and ,
  • Zetao Jiang,
  • Qijing Yuan and
  • Tao Yu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 September 2026

User-level short-term load forecasting is crucial for the efficient operation and dispatch of distribution networks. However, accurate forecasting remains challenging because of pronounced load fluctuations and abrupt local variations. To address thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power System Operation and Control Technology—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,031 Views
16 Pages

30 May 2023

Short-term load forecasting is critical to ensuring the safe and stable operation of the power system. To this end, this study proposes a load power prediction model that utilizes outlier correction, decomposition, and ensemble reinforcement learning...

(This article belongs to the Topic Short-Term Load Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
960 Views
19 Pages

9 May 2026

To fully exploit the correlation between the operating states of appliances, an adaptive graph convolutional neural network (AChebNet) for nonintrusive power load decomposition is proposed. An adaptive adjacency matrix is defined to characterize feat...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
635 Views
20 Pages

Electric Vehicle Identification Model Based on Net Load Decomposition and Two-Stage Decision

  • Shuxian Yi,
  • Guowu Li,
  • Saining Yin,
  • Zezhong Wang and ,
  • Xinsheng Ma and
  • Zhao Zhen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 May 2026

To address the challenges of identifying electric vehicles (EVs) in user-side scenarios where multi-source load data is coupled with high-penetration distributed photovoltaics (PV), we propose a robust EV identification framework based on net load de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control and Operation of Distributed Energy Resources in Modern Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,948 Views
22 Pages

14 September 2018

Accurate load forecasting can help alleviate the impact of renewable-energy access to the network, facilitate the power plants to arrange unit maintenance and encourage the power broker companies to develop a reasonable quotation plan. However, the t...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
313 Views
24 Pages

Research on Non-Intrusive Combined Load Decomposition and Identification Method Based on Deep Learning

  • Yao Wang,
  • Xinge Shi,
  • Zhizhou Bao,
  • Ruodan Chen and ,
  • Hanjia Tang,
  • Zizhe Zhang and
  • Dejie Sheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 June 2026

To enable fine-grained electricity management on the user side under the dual-carbon strategy and address the inherent limitations of traditional non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) methods in multi-load parallel operation scenarios, this paper prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,868 Views
21 Pages

Equivalent Identification of Distributed Random Dynamic Load by Using K–L Decomposition and Sparse Representation

  • Kun Li,
  • Yue Zhao,
  • Zhuo Fu,
  • Chenghao Tan and ,
  • Xianfeng Man and
  • Chi Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 April 2022

By aiming at the common distributed random dynamic loads in engineering practice, an equivalent identification method that is based on K–L decomposition and sparse representation is proposed. Considering that the establishment of a probability...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,034 Views
21 Pages

10 April 2024

In the realm of power systems, short-term electric load forecasting is pivotal for ensuring supply–demand balance, optimizing generation planning, reducing operational costs, and maintaining grid stability. Short-term load curves are characteristical...

(This article belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,725 Views
20 Pages

20 June 2023

The accurate prediction of short-term load is crucial for the grid dispatching department in developing power generation plans, regulating unit output, and minimizing economic losses. However, due to the variability in customers’ electricity co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Simulation for the Electrical Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
385 Views
20 Pages

30 August 2026

With the ongoing reform of electricity markets and the increasing penetration of demand response (DR) resources, load exhibits stronger price-related uncertainty, posing significant challenges to short-term load forecasting. To address this issue, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Market-Oriented Reform of Electricity Distribution Networks: Mechanism Design, Pricing Innovation, and Market Efficiency)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,156 Views
31 Pages

A Short-Term Building Load Prediction Method Based on Modal Decomposition and Deep Learning

  • Shengze Lu,
  • Dandan Yu,
  • Yan Ding,
  • Wanyue Chen and ,
  • Chuanzhi Liang,
  • Jihui Yuan,
  • Zhe Tian and
  • Yakai Lu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

10 December 2025

Accurate cooling load prediction is essential for energy-efficient HVAC system operation. However, the stochastic and nonlinear nature of load data challenges conventional neural networks, causing prediction delays and errors. To address this, a nove...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Materials and Energy-Efficient Solutions for the Built Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,458 Views
21 Pages

19 March 2024

Accurately predicting the cold load of industrial buildings is a crucial step in establishing an energy consumption management system for industrial constructions, which plays a significant role in advancing sustainable development. However, due to d...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Building)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,709 Views
30 Pages

14 December 2016

Accurate short-term electrical load forecasting plays a pivotal role in the national economy and people’s livelihood through providing effective future plans and ensuring a reliable supply of sustainable electricity. Although considerable work has be...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Kernel Methods and Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,027 Views
23 Pages

11 September 2025

With the transition of the energy structure and the continuous development of smart grids, short-term user-side load forecasting plays a key role in fine power dispatch and efficient system operation. However, existing parameter optimization methods...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,254 Views
22 Pages

25 March 2025

With the increasing complexity of the power system and the increasing load volatility, accurate load forecasting plays a vital role in ensuring the safety of power supply, optimizing scheduling decisions and resource allocation. However, the traditio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
117 Citations
10,519 Views
15 Pages

2 April 2013

Electric load forecasting is an important issue for a power utility, associated with the management of daily operations such as energy transfer scheduling, unit commitment, and load dispatch. Inspired by strong non-linear learning capability of suppo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Advanced Techniques for Forecasting in Energy Sector)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,657 Views
22 Pages

30 August 2025

High energy-consuming industrial parks are characterized by high base-load-to-peak-valley ratios, overlapping production cycles, and megawatt-scale step changes, which significantly complicate short-term load forecasting. To tackle these challenges,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,465 Views
16 Pages

22 November 2023

With the rapid development of new power systems, power usage stations are becoming more diverse and complex. Fine-grained management of demand-side power load has become increasingly crucial. To address the accurate load forecasting needs for various...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
761 Views
20 Pages

21 November 2025

The construction of zero-carbon parks has become an urgent priority. Electric load forecasting plays a decisive role in enabling the efficient operation of industrial parks; however, the complexity of electric load features within the parks has limit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Energy Efficiency and Low-Carbon Pathways in Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
4,928 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2019

For operational management of power plants, it is desirable to possess more precise short-term load forecasting results to guarantee the power supply and load dispatch. The empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method and the particle swarm optimization...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Optimization Modelling in Energy Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,417 Views
17 Pages

12 May 2025

Accurate power load forecasting is crucial for ensuring grid stability, optimizing economic dispatch, and facilitating renewable energy integration in modern smart grids. However, real load forecasting is often disturbed by the inherent non-stationar...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,199 Views
17 Pages

Short-Term Power Load Forecasting: An Integrated Approach Utilizing Variational Mode Decomposition and TCN–BiGRU

  • Zhuoqun Zou,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Ning E,
  • Can Zhang and ,
  • Zhaocai Wang and
  • Enyu Jiang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 September 2023

Accurate short-term power load forecasting is crucial to maintaining a balance between energy supply and demand, thus minimizing operational costs. However, the intrinsic uncertainty and non-linearity of load data substantially impact the accuracy of...

(This article belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,031 Views
15 Pages

Ultra Short-Term Power Load Forecasting Based on Similar Day Clustering and Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition

  • Wenhui Zeng,
  • Jiarui Li,
  • Changchun Sun,
  • Lin Cao and ,
  • Xiaoping Tang,
  • Shaolong Shu and
  • Junsheng Zheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 February 2023

With the increasing demand of the power industry for load forecasting, improving the accuracy of power load forecasting has become increasingly important. In this paper, we propose an ultra short-term power load forecasting method based on similar da...

(This article belongs to the Topic Frontier Research in Energy Forecasting)
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  • Open Access
367 Views
25 Pages

17 August 2026

Against the backdrop of global climate change and energy structure transition, district energy systems have garnered significant attention for their efficiency and sustainability. Accurate load forecasting is crucial for enhancing the operational eff...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,225 Views
23 Pages

In the context of low carbon, achieving accurate forecasting of electrical energy is critical for power management with the continuous development of power systems. For the sake of improving the performance of load forecasting, an improved MNet-Atten...

(This article belongs to the Section Charging Infrastructure and Grid Integration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,973 Views
17 Pages

25 August 2023

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) are frequently associated with working memory (WM) dysfunction, which is also observed in various neural psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, and ADHD. Early de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Image, Video and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,312 Views
15 Pages

A Combined Method for Short-Term Load Forecasting Considering the Characteristics of Components of Seasonal and Trend Decomposition Using Local Regression

  • Sile Hu,
  • Yuan Wang,
  • Wenbin Cai,
  • Yuan Yu and ,
  • Chao Chen,
  • Jiaqiang Yang,
  • Yucan Zhao and
  • Yuan Gao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

8 March 2024

In response to the complexity and high volatility of original load data affecting the accuracy of load forecasting, a combined method for short-term load forecasting considering the characteristics of components of seasonal and trend decomposition us...

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  • Open Access
240 Views
24 Pages

24 September 2026

To address the challenges in short-term power load forecasting posed by the non-stationary, multi-scale, and nonlinear characteristics of load data, this study proposes a short-term load interval forecasting method based on a Convolutional Neural Net...

  • Article
  • Open Access
277 Views
27 Pages

17 August 2026

Accurate joint forecasting of electricity, cooling, heating, and gas loads is essential to the coordinated operation of integrated energy systems. However, multivariate energy load sequences exhibit strong cross-carrier coupling, non-stationarity, an...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,509 Views
14 Pages

8 July 2017

In order to improve the intelligent diagnosis level of an on-load tap-changer’s (OLTC) mechanical condition, a feature extraction method based on variational mode decomposition (VMD) and weight divergence was proposed. The harmony search (HS) algorit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 2016 IEEE International Conference on High Voltage Engineering (ICHVE 2016))
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,340 Views
14 Pages

27 December 2021

Short-term load forecasting is an important part of load forecasting, which is of great significance to the optimal power flow and power supply guarantee of the power system. In this paper, we proposed the load series reconstruction method combined i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends in Energy Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
487 Views
24 Pages

A Short-Term Load Forecasting Model Based on STL Decomposition and CNN-BiLSTM Optimized by Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Yi Wang,
  • Jian Zhou,
  • Gang Wu,
  • Ruiguang Ma and ,
  • Tiannan Ma,
  • Jichun Liu and
  • Dezhuang Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Accurate short-term electricity load forecasting is crucial for day-ahead scheduling and secure operation of power systems. However, electricity load series exhibit significant non-stationarity, with complex coupling between low-frequency trends and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reinforcement Learning: Emerging Techniques and Future Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,042 Views
27 Pages

17 October 2025

This paper presents an optimized hybrid deep learning model for power load forecasting—QR-FMD-CNN-BiGRU-Attention—that integrates similar day selection, load decomposition, and deep learning to address the nonlinearity and volatility of p...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,427 Views
13 Pages

30 April 2021

Global warming is a leading world issue driving the common social objective of reducing carbon emissions. People have witnessed the melting of ice and abrupt changes in climate. Reducing electricity usage is one possible method of slowing these chang...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensor for Smartgrids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
7,950 Views
25 Pages

10 January 2018

Daily peak load forecasting is an important part of power load forecasting. The accuracy of its prediction has great influence on the formulation of power generation plan, power grid dispatching, power grid operation and power supply reliability of p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,617 Views
20 Pages

22 June 2024

Accurate short-term forecasting of power load is essential for the reliable operation of the comprehensive energy systems of ports and for effectively reducing energy consumption. Owing to the complexity of port systems, traditional load forecasting...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Transition in Transport Energy Consumption: The Charging/Discharging Infrastructure and Self-Containing Transport Energy System of New Energy Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
6,187 Views
20 Pages

21 March 2017

As an important part of power system planning and the basis of economic operation of power systems, the main work of power load forecasting is to predict the time distribution and spatial distribution of future power loads. The accuracy of load forec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,259 Views
17 Pages

Short-Term Power Load Forecasting Method Based on Improved Sparrow Search Algorithm, Variational Mode Decomposition, and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network

  • Ming Wen,
  • Bo Liu,
  • Hao Zhong,
  • Zongchao Yu and ,
  • Changqing Chen,
  • Xian Yang,
  • Xueying Dai and
  • Lisi Chen
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

24 October 2024

A short-term power load forecasting method is proposed based on an improved Sparrow Search Algorithm (ISSA), Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD), and Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory (BiLSTM) neural network. First, the SSA is optimized by combin...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,914 Views
13 Pages

Nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) analyzes only the main circuit load information with an algorithm to decompose the load, which is an important way to help reduce energy usage. Recent research shows that deep learning has become popular for this p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Processing for Systems under Uncertainty or Perturbation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,346 Views
21 Pages

Research on the Variational Mode Decomposition Method for Displacement Signals of Offshore Pile Foundations in the Rapid Loading Method

  • Qing Guo,
  • Ruizhe Jin,
  • Guoliang Dai,
  • Weiming Gong and ,
  • Pengfei Ji and
  • Xueliang Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 October 2025

Based on the characteristics of offshore pile foundation engineering, this study proposes a novel interpretation method for pile settlement time history signals in Rapid Load Testing (RLT). The approach utilizes Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) t...

(This article belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Views
35 Pages

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning with Causal Multiscale Decomposition for Regional Short-Term Load Forecasting in Smart Grids

  • Qian Dang,
  • Rui Su,
  • Jiaqi Wang,
  • Pengdong Lu and ,
  • Dengqiang Zhang,
  • Yuxuan Fu and
  • Xiaolin Gui
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 November 2026

Accurate regional short-term load forecasting is essential to the reliable operation and efficient energy scheduling of smart grids. However, the data needed for collaborative model training are often distributed across regional utilities and grid op...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Smart Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,384 Views
15 Pages

23 March 2023

At present, the non-intrusive load decomposition method for low-frequency sampling data is as yet insufficient within the context of generalization performance, failing to meet the decomposition accuracy requirements when applied to novel scenarios....

(This article belongs to the Topic Smart Electric Energy in Buildings)

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