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12 Citations
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A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Ensemble Machine Learning Models in Peak Electricity Forecasting

  • Warut Pannakkong,
  • Vu Thanh Vinh,
  • Nguyen Ngoc Minh Tuyen and
  • Jirachai Buddhakulsomsiri

1 July 2023

Electricity peak load forecasting plays an important role in electricity generation capacity planning to ensure reliable power supplies. To achieve high forecast accuracy, multiple machine learning models have been implemented to forecast the monthly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Energy Consumption and Load Forecasting Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,551 Views
19 Pages

28 March 2022

This study examines the daily peak load forecasting problem in South Korea. This problem has become increasingly important due to the continually changing energy environment. As such, it has been studied by many researchers over the decades. South Ko...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,126 Views
26 Pages

24 May 2021

Predicting the future peak demand growth becomes increasingly important as more consumer loads and electric vehicles (EVs) start connecting to the grid. Accurate forecasts will enable energy suppliers to meet demand more reliably. However, this is a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Optimization with Applications of Power System III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,681 Views
21 Pages

8 December 2023

In recent years, with the development of societies and economies, the demand for social electricity has further increased. The efficiency and accuracy of electric-load forecasting is an important guarantee for the safety and reliability of power syst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Forecasting and Optimization in Electrical Power Systems II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,202 Views
22 Pages

Instantaneous Electricity Peak Load Forecasting Using Optimization and Machine Learning

  • Mustafa Saglam,
  • Xiaojing Lv,
  • Catalina Spataru and
  • Omer Ali Karaman

6 February 2024

Accurate instantaneous electricity peak load prediction is crucial for efficient capacity planning and cost-effective electricity network establishment. This paper aims to enhance the accuracy of instantaneous peak load forecasting by employing model...

(This article belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,694 Views
17 Pages

28 November 2022

Forecasting the electricity demand of buildings is a key step in preventing a high concentration of electricity demand and optimizing the operation of national power systems. Recently, the overall performance of electricity-demand forecasting has bee...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Simulation for the Electrical Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,816 Views
23 Pages

14 September 2022

Increased focus on sustainability and energy decentralization has positively impacted the adoption of nanogrids. With the tremendous growth, load forecasting has become crucial for their daily operation. Since the loads of nanogrids have large variat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges, Trends and Forecasting of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
771 Views
22 Pages

Integrating Scenario Forecasting with SPNN-AtGNNWR for China’s Carbon Peak Pathway Projection

  • Lizhi Miao,
  • Heng Xu,
  • Xinkai Feng,
  • Jvmin Wang and ,
  • Sheng Tang,
  • Xinxin Zhou,
  • Xiying Sun,
  • Gang Lu and
  • Mei-Po Kwan
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

27 December 2025

As the world’s leading carbon emitter, China’s ability to reach its pledged carbon peak by 2030 is pivotal for its own green transition and global climate governance. This research proposes a novel integration of spatial proximity neural...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,811 Views
19 Pages

Peak-Load Forecasting for Small Industries: A Machine Learning Approach

  • Dong-Hoon Kim,
  • Eun-Kyu Lee and
  • Naik Bakht Sania Qureshi

13 August 2020

Peak-load forecasting prevents energy waste and helps with environmental issues by establishing plans for the use of renewable energy. For that reason, the subject is still actively studied. Most of these studies are focused on improving predictive p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Electric Power Systems and Smart Grids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,625 Views
21 Pages

22 December 2025

Energy storage systems enhance grid efficiency by mitigating peak demand and balancing generation variability. This work addresses the challenge of achieving optimal peak shaving without prior knowledge of the actual load profile. To this end, we int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Innovations in Stability and Control of Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
695 Views
27 Pages

2 June 2026

The operational resilience and strategic infrastructure planning of modern power grids are fundamentally anchored in the precision of mid-term load forecasting (MTLF). However, accurate forecasting over a 52-week horizon is increasingly challenging d...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
474 Views
14 Pages

13 September 2026

Accurate forecasting of CO2 emissions is essential for evaluating emission-reduction pathways and supporting progress toward carbon-peaking and sustainable-development goals. Such forecasting is often challenging because macroeconomic datasets are sm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Toward Carbon Neutrality: The Low Carbon Transition Pathways)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,482 Views
19 Pages

Enhancing Peak Runoff Forecasting through Feature Engineering Applied to X-Band Radar Data

  • Julio Álvarez-Estrella,
  • Paul Muñoz,
  • Jörg Bendix,
  • Pablo Contreras and
  • Rolando Célleri

27 March 2024

Floods cause significant damage to human life, infrastructure, agriculture, and the economy. Predicting peak runoffs is crucial for hazard assessment, but it is challenging in remote areas like the Andes due to limited hydrometeorological data. We ut...

(This article belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
416 Views
20 Pages

13 August 2026

Underprediction of high electrical demand can be more operationally consequential than an equally sized overprediction, yet standard point forecasting models are optimized primarily for average error. This case study evaluates a multivariate quantile...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Applications for Smart Grid Energy Management and Industrial Electrical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
272 Views
29 Pages

MSAFP-Net: An Adaptive Fusion-Driven Multi-Scale Neural Network for Peak Production Forecasting in Gas Wells

  • Lei Dai,
  • Bingqi Niu,
  • Yushi Ye,
  • Wenqi Guo and ,
  • Shichen Gao,
  • Ziyao Wang,
  • Hongfang Wei and
  • Yang Gao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

8 October 2026

This study seeks to overcome the limitations of traditional gas well production peak forecasting approaches, particularly in the context of handling multi-dimensional features, complex dynamic behaviors, and non-linear relationships. Accordingly, a d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,575 Views
31 Pages

An Improved Hybrid Approach for Daily Electricity Peak Demand Forecasting during Disrupted Situations: A Case Study of COVID-19 Impact in Thailand

  • Lalitpat Aswanuwath,
  • Warut Pannakkong,
  • Jirachai Buddhakulsomsiri,
  • Jessada Karnjana and
  • Van-Nam Huynh

22 December 2023

Accurate electricity demand forecasting is essential for global energy security, reducing costs, ensuring grid stability, and informing decision making in the energy sector. Disruptions often lead to unpredictable demand shifts, posing greater challe...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,465 Views
20 Pages

Hybrid LSTM–BPNN-to-BPNN Model Considering Multi-Source Information for Forecasting Medium- and Long-Term Electricity Peak Load

  • Bingjie Jin,
  • Guihua Zeng,
  • Zhilin Lu,
  • Hongqiao Peng and ,
  • Shuxin Luo,
  • Xinhe Yang,
  • Haojun Zhu and
  • Mingbo Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 October 2022

Accurate medium- and long-term electricity peak load forecasting is critical for power system operation, planning, and electricity trading. However, peak load forecasting is challenging because of the complex and nonlinear relationship between peak l...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
7,948 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
27 Citations
4,588 Views
24 Pages

13 February 2023

Daily electricity peak load forecasting is important for electricity generation capacity planning. Accurate forecasting leads to saving on excessive electricity generating capacity, while maintaining the stability of the power system. The main challe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Energy Consumption and Load Forecasting Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,723 Views
15 Pages

Analysis and Short-Term Peak Forecasting of the Driving Factors of Carbon Emissions in the Construction Industry at the Provincial Level in China

  • Chao Dai,
  • Yuan Tan,
  • Shuangping Cao,
  • Hong Liao and ,
  • Jie Pu,
  • Haiyan Huang and
  • Weiguang Cai
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 August 2024

The construction industry plays a pivotal role in China’s achievement of its “dual carbon” goals. This study conducts a decomposition analysis of the carbon emissions from the construction industry (CECI) at both national and provin...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,010 Views
27 Pages

RAID: Robust and Interpretable Daily Peak Load Forecasting via Multiple Deep Neural Networks and Shapley Values

  • Joohyun Jang,
  • Woonyoung Jeong,
  • Sangmin Kim,
  • Byeongcheon Lee and ,
  • Miyoung Lee and
  • Jihoon Moon
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 April 2023

Accurate daily peak load forecasting (DPLF) is crucial for informed decision-making in energy management. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are particularly apt for DPLF because they can analyze multiple factors, such as timestamps, weather conditions, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,156 Views
17 Pages

18 December 2019

Ensemble flood forecasts are an established tool to provide information about the uncertainty of runoff predictions. However, their interpretation may not be straightforward, especially when dealing with extreme events; therefore, the development of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climatological and Hydrological Processes in Mountain Regions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,879 Views
16 Pages

Development and Application of a Novel Snow Peak Sighting Forecast System over Chengdu

  • Chengwei Lu,
  • Ting Chen,
  • Xinyue Yang,
  • Qinwen Tan and ,
  • Xue Kang,
  • Tianyue Zhang,
  • Zihang Zhou,
  • Fumo Yang,
  • Xi Chen and
  • Yuancheng Wang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

21 July 2023

As air quality has improved rapidly in recent years, the public has become more interested in whether a famous snow peak, Yaomei Feng on the Tibetan Plateau, can be seen from Chengdu, a megacity located on the western plain of the Sichuan Basin, east...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,822 Views
18 Pages

11 March 2025

The increasing demand for electricity and the environmental challenges associated with traditional fossil fuel-based power generation have accelerated the global transition to renewable energy sources. While renewable energy offers significant advant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,253 Views
18 Pages

Optimal ESS Scheduling for Peak Shaving of Building Energy Using Accuracy-Enhanced Load Forecast

  • Jin Sol Hwang,
  • Ismi Rosyiana Fitri,
  • Jung-Su Kim and
  • Hwachang Song

28 October 2020

This paper proposes an optimal Energy Storage System (ESS) scheduling algorithm Building Energy Management System (BEMS). In particular, the focus is placed on how to reduce the peak load using ESS and load forecast. To this end, first, an existing d...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,239 Views
19 Pages

An Improved Wind Power Forecasting Model Considering Peak Fluctuations

  • Shengjie Yang,
  • Jie Tang,
  • Lun Ye,
  • Jiangang Liu and
  • Wenjun Zhao

Wind power output sequences exhibit strong randomness and intermittency characteristics; traditional single forecasting models struggle to capture the internal features of sequences and are highly susceptible to interference from high-frequency noise...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Intelligence Technology and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,885 Views
13 Pages

29 April 2021

Model predictive control (MPC) is widely used for microgrids or unit commitment due to its ability to respect the forecasts of loads and generation of renewable energies. However, while there are lots of approaches to accounting for uncertainties in...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,479 Views
17 Pages

1 July 2025

This article presents a simplified method for forecasting Poland’s long-term peak electricity demand using a modified Prigogine logistic equation. While complex models like the WEM or PRIMES offer high precision, their complexity and data requi...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,394 Views
21 Pages

3 August 2021

In the process of economic development, the consumption of energy leads to environmental pollution. Environmental pollution affects the sustainable development of the world, and therefore energy consumption needs to be controlled. To help China formu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,808 Views
19 Pages

27 March 2014

The power output capacity of a local electrical utility is dictated by its customers’ cumulative peak-demand electrical consumption. Most electrical utilities in the United States maintain peak-power generation capacity by charging for end-use peak e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Efficient Building Design and Operation 2014)
  • Article
  • Open Access
803 Views
18 Pages

PAGF: Short-Horizon Forecasting of 3D Facial Landmarks

  • Mingzhu Yan,
  • Ye Yuan,
  • Jian Liu and
  • Fangyan Yang

6 April 2026

Short-term facial landmark forecasting is important for anticipatory facial behavior in human–robot interaction, yet models trained with pointwise reconstruction losses often suffer from mean reversion, producing low-error predictions with weak...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control of Complex Dynamical Systems and Robotics with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,614 Views
17 Pages

This article is devoted to the determination of the average daily electric load and the average electric load during the hours of maximum load, taking into account the generalized coefficient Ai, using data on electricity consumption for apartment bu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
9,554 Views
25 Pages

8 October 2017

Forecasting of electricity demand has become one of the most important areas of research in the electric power industry, as it is a critical component of cost-efficient power system management and planning. In this context, accurate and robust load f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Smart Metering to Demand Side Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
100 Citations
11,110 Views
17 Pages

Long-Term Forecasting of Electrical Loads in Kuwait Using Prophet and Holt–Winters Models

  • Abdulla I. Almazrouee,
  • Abdullah M. Almeshal,
  • Abdulrahman S. Almutairi,
  • Mohammad R. Alenezi and
  • Saleh N. Alhajeri

13 August 2020

The rapidly increasing population growth and expansion of urban development are undoubtedly two of the main reasons for increasing global energy consumption. Accurate long-term forecasting of peak load is essential for saving time and money for count...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Methods of Power Load Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,671 Views
14 Pages

Practical Operation Strategies for Energy Storage System under Uncertainty

  • Minsoo Kim,
  • Kangsan Kim,
  • Hyungeun Choi,
  • Seonjeong Lee and
  • Hongseok Kim

21 March 2019

Recent advances in battery technologies have reduced the financial burden of using the energy storage system (ESS) for customers. Peak cut, one of the benefits of using ESS, can be achieved through proper charging/discharging scheduling of ESS. Howev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Optimization with Applications of Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,967 Views
15 Pages

Comparing Simple Flood Reservoir Operation Rules

  • James Connaughton,
  • Natalie King,
  • Licheng Dong,
  • Patrick Ji and
  • Jay Lund

11 September 2014

The effectiveness of three simple flood operating rules in reducing the peak flow is compared for four simplified hydrograph shapes. The Minimize Flood Peak rule uses available flood storage capacity to store peak flows from an accurate hydrograph fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,843 Views
19 Pages

Improved Short-Term Load Forecasting Based on Two-Stage Predictions with Artificial Neural Networks in a Microgrid Environment

  • Luis Hernández,
  • Carlos Baladrón,
  • Javier M. Aguiar,
  • Lorena Calavia and ,
  • Belén Carro,
  • Antonio Sánchez-Esguevillas,
  • Javier Sanjuán,
  • Álvaro González and
  • Jaime Lloret
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

29 August 2013

Short-Term Load Forecasting plays a significant role in energy generation planning, and is specially gaining momentum in the emerging Smart Grids environment, which usually presents highly disaggregated scenarios where detailed real-time information...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Grids: The Electrical Power Network and Communication System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,866 Views
20 Pages

Development of a Hydrological Ensemble Prediction System to Assist with Decision-Making for Floods during Typhoons

  • Sheng-Chi Yang,
  • Tsun-Hua Yang,
  • Ya-Chi Chang,
  • Cheng-Hsin Chen and ,
  • Mei-Ying Lin,
  • Jui-Yi Ho and
  • Kwan Tun Lee
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 May 2020

Hydrological ensemble prediction systems (HEPSs) can provide decision makers with early warning information, such as peak stage and peak time, with enough lead time to take the necessary measures to mitigate disasters. This study develops a HEPS that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Water Resources Management for Disaster Risk Reduction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
651 Views
38 Pages

19 August 2026

Industrial tariffs and demand-response (DR) programs pay for two quantities—daily energy and daily peak demand—yet short-term forecasting research addresses mostly the first, and rarely under the constraints of small industrial sites: str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,165 Views
14 Pages

19 October 2018

The height of F2 peak (hmF2) is an essential ionospheric parameter and its variations can reflect both the earth magnetic and solar activities. Therefore, reliable prediction of hmF2 is important for the study of space, such as solar wind and extreme...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,976 Views
17 Pages

4 November 2015

It is essential to consider the acceptable threshold in the assessment of a hydrological model because of the scarcity of research in the hydrology community and errors do not necessarily cause risk. Two forecast errors, including rainfall forecast e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,072 Views
24 Pages

Effective peak load management enables utilities to mitigate increased electricity demand and optimize the use of available resources during periods of maximum consumption. Accurate forecasting of the peak load is essential for ensuring the reliabili...

(This article belongs to the Section Data Mining and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,654 Views
12 Pages

Forecasting of Flash Floods Peak Flow for Environmental Hazards and Water Harvesting in Desert Area of El-Qaa Plain, Sinai

  • Ismail Abd-Elaty,
  • Hanan Shoshah,
  • Martina Zeleňáková,
  • Nand Lal Kushwaha and
  • Osama W. El-Dean

Water resources in arid and semi-arid regions are limited where the demands of agriculture, drinking and industry are increasing, especially in drought areas. These regions are subjected to climate changes (CC) that affect the watershed duration and...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,834 Views
26 Pages

Time-Series Modeling and LLM-Based Agents for Peak Energy Management in Smart Campus Environments

  • Mossab Batal,
  • Youness Tace,
  • Hassna Bensag,
  • Sanaa El Filali and
  • Mohamed Tabaa

15 January 2026

A Smart campus increasingly operates on the basis of data-driven operations, but an increasing demand for energy puts their control over costs and sustainability at risk. This study addresses the challenge of anticipating and managing energy consumpt...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
676 Views
32 Pages

Mid-Term Electricity Demand Forecasting Using Seasonal Weather Forecasts: An Application in Greece

  • Stefanos Pappa,
  • Sevastianos Mirasgedis,
  • Konstantinos V. Varotsos and
  • Christos Giannakopoulos

17 April 2026

This study presents a structured methodology for mid-term electricity demand forecasting in the Greek interconnected power system, incorporating climate-sensitive and socio-economic variables. A set of linear regression models was developed to produc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Solutions in Energy Market: Energy Policy and Environmental Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,682 Views
21 Pages

A New Loss Function for Enhancing Peak Prediction in Time Series Data with High Variability

  • Mahan Hajiabbasi Somehsaraie,
  • Soheyla Tofighi,
  • Zhaoan Wang,
  • Jun Wang and
  • Shaoping Xiao

Time series models are considered among the most intricate models in machine learning. Due to sharp temporal variations, time series models normally fall short in predicting the peaks or local minima accurately. To overcome this challenge, we propose...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers of Forecasting 2025)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,995 Views
19 Pages

Impact of PHEVs Penetration on Ontario’s Electricity Grid and Environmental Considerations

  • Lena Ahmadi,
  • Eric Croiset,
  • Ali Elkamel,
  • Peter L. Douglas and ,
  • Woramon Unbangluang and
  • Evgueniy Entchev
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 November 2012

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have a large potential to reduce greenhouse gases emissions and increase fuel economy and fuel flexibility. PHEVs are propelled by the energy from both gasoline and electric power sources. Penetration of PHEVs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vehicle to Grid)
  • Article
  • Open Access
593 Views
25 Pages

21 April 2026

To address peak edge operation and excessive valve switching in hydraulically coupled multi-zone campus irrigation, this study proposes a collaborative scheduling framework that combines short-term evapotranspiration (ET) forecasting with safety-cons...

(This article belongs to the Section Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
518 Views
25 Pages

7 September 2026

Short-term discharge forecasting remains challenging under highly variable, nonlinear, and data-constrained hydrological conditions, where conventional machine learning and deep learning approaches require large datasets and extensive parameterisatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
21,179 Views
18 Pages

Digitization in the mining industry and machine learning applications have improved the production by showing insights in different components. Energy consumption is one of the key components to improve the industry’s performance in a smart way...

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