Short-term Load Forecasting based on ABC and ANN for Smart Grids

Abstract

Short term load forecasting is a subject about estimating future electricity consumption for a time interval from one hour to one week and it has a vital importance for the operation of a power system and smart grids. This process is mandatory for distribution companies and big electricity consumers, especially in liberalized energy markets. Electricity generation plans are made according to the amount of electricity consumption forecasts. If the forecast is overestimated, it leads to the start-up of too many units supplying an unnecessary level of reserve, therefore the production cost is increased. On the contrary if the forecast is underestimated, it may result in a risky operation and consequently power outages can occur at the power system. In this study, a hybrid method based on the combination of Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is developed for short term load forecasting. ABC algorithm is used in ANN learning process and it optimizes the neuron connections weights of ANN. Historical load, temperature difference and season are selected as model inputs. While three years hourly data is selected as training data, one year hourly data is selected as testing data. The results show that the application of this hybrid system produce forecast values close to the actual values.

Keywords

• Artificial bee colony,Artificial neural network,Hybrid method,Short term load forecasting

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