Short-Term Electricity-Load Forecasting by Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Survey

Short-Term Electricity-Load Forecasting (STELF) refers to the prediction of the immediate demand (in the next few hours to several days) for the power system. Various external factors, such as weather changes and the emergence of new electricity consumption scenarios, can impact electricity demand, causing load data to fluctuate and become non-linear, which increases the complexity and difficulty of STELF. In the past decade, deep learning has been applied to STELF, modeling and predicting electricity demand with high accuracy, and contributing significantly to the development of STELF. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on deep-learning-based STELF over the past ten years. It examines the entire forecasting process, including data pre-processing, feature extraction, deep-learning modeling and optimization, and results evaluation. This paper also identifies some research challenges and potential research directions to be further investigated in future work.

A novel hybrid model based on multi-objective Harris hawks optimization algorithm for daily PM2.5 and PM10 forecasting

High levels of air pollution may seriously affect people's living environment and even endanger their lives. In order to reduce air pollution concentrations, and warn the public before the occurrence of hazardous air pollutants, it is urgent to design an accurate and reliable air pollutant forecasting model. However, most previous research have many deficiencies, such as ignoring the importance of predictive stability, and poor initial parameters and so on, which have significantly effect on the performance of air pollution prediction. Therefore, to address these issues, a novel hybrid model is proposed in this study. Specifically, a powerful data preprocessing techniques is applied to decompose the original time series into different modes from low- frequency to high- frequency. Next, a new multi-objective algorithm called MOHHO is first developed in this study, which are introduced to tune the parameters of ELM model with high forecasting accuracy and stability for air pollution series prediction, simultaneously. And the optimized ELM model is used to perform the time series prediction. Finally, a scientific and robust evaluation system including several error criteria, benchmark models, and several experiments using six air pollutant concentrations time series from three cities in China is designed to perform a compressive assessment for the presented hybrid forecasting model. Experimental results indicate that the proposed hybrid model can guarantee a more stable and higher predictive performance compared to others, whose superior prediction ability may help to develop effective plans for air pollutant emissions and prevent health problems caused by air pollution.