Long-Term Electricity Load Forecasting Considering Volatility Using Multiplicative Error Model

Swasti R. Khuntia*, José L. Rueda, Mart A.M.M. van der Meijden

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Abstract

Long-term electricity load forecasting plays a vital role for utilities and planners in terms of grid development and expansion planning. An overestimate of long-term electricity load will result in substantial wasted investment on the construction of excess power facilities, while an underestimate of the future load will result in insufficient generation and inadequate demand. As a first of its kind, this research proposes the use of a multiplicative error model (MEM) in forecasting electricity load for the long-term horizon. MEM originates from the structure of autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH) model where conditional variance is dynamically parameterized and it multiplicatively interacts with an innovation term of time-series. Historical load data, as accessed from a United States (U.S.) regional transmission operator, and recession data, accessed from the National Bureau of Economic Research, are used in this study. The superiority of considering volatility is proven by out-of-sample forecast results as well as directional accuracy during the great economic recession of 2008. Historical volatility is used to account for implied volatility. To incorporate future volatility, backtesting of MEM is performed. Two performance indicators used to assess the proposed model are: (i) loss functions in terms of mean absolute percentage error and mean squared error (for both in-sample model fit and out-of-sample forecasts) and (ii) directional accuracy.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3308
Pages (from-to)1-19
Number of pages19
JournalEnergies
Volume11
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Keywords

  • Load forecast
  • Long-term horizon
  • Multiplicative error model
  • Time-series forecasting
  • Volatility

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