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Energy Forecasting: A Review and Outlook

  • Tao Hong*
  • , Pierre Pinson
  • , Yi Wang
  • , Rafal Weron
  • , Dazhi Yang
  • , Hamidreza Zareipour
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
  • Wrocław University of Science and Technology
  • Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore

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Abstract

Forecasting has been an essential part of the power and energy industry. Researchers and practitioners have contributed thousands of papers on forecasting electricity demand and prices, and renewable generation (e.g., wind and solar power). This article offers a brief review of influential energy forecasting papers; summarizes research trends; discusses importance of reproducible research and points out six valuable open data sources; makes recommendations about publishing high-quality research papers; and offers an outlook into the future of energy forecasting.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9218967
Pages (from-to)376-388
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Power and Energy Technology Systems Journal
Volume7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

  • Energy forecasting
  • electricity price forecasting
  • load forecasting
  • solar forecasting
  • wind forecasting

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