Enhanced spatio-temporal electric load forecasts using less data with active deep learning

Journal Article (2022)
Author(s)

Arsam Aryandoust (ETH Zürich)

Anthony Patt (ETH Zürich)

Stefan Pfenninger (ETH Zürich, TU Delft - Energy and Industry)

Research Group
Energy and Industry
Copyright
© 2022 Arsam Aryandoust, Anthony Patt, Stefan Pfenninger
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00552-x
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Publication Year
2022
Language
English
Copyright
© 2022 Arsam Aryandoust, Anthony Patt, Stefan Pfenninger
Research Group
Energy and Industry
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Issue number
11
Volume number
4
Pages (from-to)
977-991
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Abstract

An effective way to mitigate climate change is to electrify most of our energy demand and supply the necessary electricity from renewable wind and solar power plants. Spatio-temporal predictions of electric load become increasingly important for planning this transition, while deep learning prediction models provide increasingly accurate predictions for it. The data that are used for training deep learning models, however, are usually collected at random using a passive learning approach. This naturally results in a large demand for data and associated costs for sensors such as smart meters, posing a large barrier for electric utilities when decarbonizing their grids. Here we investigate whether electric utilities can use active learning to collect a more informative subset of data by leveraging additional computation for better distributing smart meters. We predict ground-truth electric load profiles for single buildings using only remotely sensed data from aerial imagery of these buildings and meteorological conditions in the area of these buildings at different times. We find that active learning can enable 26–81% more accurate predictions using 29–46% less data at the price of 4–11 times more computation compared with passive learning.

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