Short-term electrical load forecasting using a fuzzy ARTMAP neural network

Stefan E. Skarman; Michael Georgiopoulos; Avelino J. Gonzalez

doi:10.1117/12.304804

25 March 1998 Short-term electrical load forecasting using a fuzzy ARTMAP neural network

Stefan E. Skarman, Michael Georgiopoulos, Avelino J. Gonzalez

Proceedings Volume 3390, Applications and Science of Computational Intelligence; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.304804
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1998, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Accurate electrical load forecasting is a necessary part of resource management for power generating companies. The better the hourly load forecast, the more closely the power generating assets of the company can be configured to minimize the cost. Automation of this process is a profitable goal and neural networks have shown promising results in achieving this goal. The most often used neural network to solve the electric load forecasting problem is the back-propagation neural network architecture. Although the performance of the back- propagation neural network architecture has been encouraging, it is worth noting that it suffers from the slow convergence problem and the difficulty of interpreting the answers that the architecture provides. A neural network architecture that does not suffer from the above mentioned drawbacks is the Fuzzy ARTMAP neural network, developed by Carpenter, Grossberg, and their colleagues at Boston University. In this work we applied the Fuzzy ARTMAP neural network to the electric load forecasting problem. We performed numerous experiments to forecast the electrical load. The experiments showed that the Fuzzy ARTMAP architecture yields as accurate electrical load forecasts as a back-propagation neural network with training time a small fraction of the training time required by the back-propagation neural network.

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Stefan E. Skarman, Michael Georgiopoulos, and Avelino J. Gonzalez "Short-term electrical load forecasting using a fuzzy ARTMAP neural network", Proc. SPIE 3390, Applications and Science of Computational Intelligence, (25 March 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.304804

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