Integrated Intelligent Energy ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (3): 47-61.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2097-0706.2025.03.005

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Key technologies for load forecasting in new power systems and their applications in diverse scenario

ZHANG Dongdong1a,1b,2(), LI Fangning1a,1b, LIU Tianhao1a,3,*()   

  1. 1. a. School of Electrical Engineering;b. State Key Laboratory of Featured Metal Materials and Life-Cycle Safety of Composite Structures,Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
    2. School of Renewable Energy, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Ordos 017010, China
    3. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,the University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong 999077, China
  • Received:2024-08-16 Revised:2024-10-25 Accepted:2024-12-02 Published:2025-03-25
  • Contact: LIU Tianhao E-mail:dongdongzhang@gxu.edu.cn;thliu@eee.hku.hk
  • Supported by:
    National Nature Science Foundation of China(52107083);Guangxi Science and Technology Major Program(AA22068071)

Abstract:

To achieve the goal of "dual carbon", the new power system is transitioning towards greening, intelligence, and diversity. Load forecasting is crucial for ensuring the safe, economic, and reliable operation of the new power system. While traditional statistical methods perform well in forecasting load data with clear patterns, the high proportion of renewable energy and the stochastic user load in new power systems pose significant challenges to these methods. Artificial intelligence technologies, particularly machine learning and deep learning, have become research hotspots due to their advantages in dealing with complex data and extracting patterns, effectively improving the accuracy and robustness of load forecasting. In this context, load forecasting methods based on mathematical and statistical principles are reviewed and their limitations are discussed in this study. The latest advancements in applications of AI techniques in load forecasting are summarized, and the characteristics of traditional machine learning, deep learning, and hybrid forecasting models are analysed. Technical challenges of load forecasting and key applications under these five scenarios are summarized and discussed:regional system-level load forecasting, net load forecasting under high proportion of renewable energy scenarios,integrated energy system load forecasting in multi-type heterogeneous energy complementary scenarios, building load forecasting, and electric vehicle load forecasting. The future directions of load forecasting technologies are forecasted.

Key words: load forecasting, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, new power systems, electric vehicle load, integrated energy system load

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