Clustering-based residential baseline estimation: a probabilistic perspective
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Journal Article
Abstract
Demand Response (DR) is one of the most cost-effective solutions for providing flexibility to power systems. The extensive deployment of DR trials and the roll-out of smart meters enable the quantification of consumer responsiveness to price signals via baseline estimation. The traditional deterministic baseline estimation approach can provide only a single value without consideration of uncertainty. This paper proposes a novel probabilistic baseline estimation framework that consists of a daily load profile pool construction stage, a deep learning-based clustering stage, an optimal cluster selection stage, and a quantile regression forests model construction stage. In particular, the concept of a daily load profile pool is introduced, and a deep-learning-based clustering approach is employed to handle a large number of daily patterns to further improve the baseline estimation performance. Case studies have been conducted on fine-grained smart meter data collected from a real dynamic time-of-use (dTOU) tariffs trial of the Low Carbon London (LCL) project. The superior performance of the proposed method is demonstrated based on a series of evaluation metrics regarding both deterministic and probabilistic estimation results.
Date Issued
2019-11-01
Date Acceptance
2019-01-22
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2019, 10 (6), pp.6014-6028
ISSN
1949-3061
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
6014
End Page
6028
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Volume
10
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
EP/K002252/1
Subjects
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
0915 Interdisciplinary Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-01-25