Deseasonalisation in Electricity Load Forecasting

  • Authors

    • Maria Elena Binti Nor
    • Mohd Saifullah Rusiman
    • Suliadi Firdaus Sufahani
    • Mohd Asrul Affendi Abdullah
    • Sathwinee A/P Bataraja
    • Sabariah Saharan
    2018-11-30
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.30.22364
  • Box-Jenkins, Deseasonalisation, Exponential Smoothing, Forecast Accuracy

  • Nowadays, there is an increasing demand for electricity however overproduction of electricity lead to wastage. Therefore, electricity load forecasting plays a crucial role in operation, planning and maintenance of power system. This study was designed to investigate the effect of deseasonalisation on electricity load data forecasting. The daily seasonality in electricity load data was removed and the forecast methods were employed on both the seasonal data and non-seasonal data. Holt Winters method and Seasonal-Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) methods were used on the seasonal data. Meanwhile, Simple and Double Exponential Smoothing methods as well as Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) methods were used on the non-seasonal data. The error measurement that were used to assess the forecast performance were mean absolute error (MAE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). The results revealed that both Exponential Smoothing method and Box-Jenkins method produced better forecast for deseasonalised data. Besides, the study proved that Box-Jenkins method was better in forecasting electricity load data for both seasonal and non-seasonal data.

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    Nor, M. E. B., Rusiman, M. S., Sufahani, S. F., Abdullah, M. A. A., Bataraja, S. A., & Saharan, S. (2018). Deseasonalisation in Electricity Load Forecasting. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.30), 448-450. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.30.22364