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Electricity supply must be matched with demand at all times. This helps reduce the chances of issues such as load frequency control and the chances of electricity blackouts. To gain a better understanding of the load that is likely to be required over the next 24 hours, estimations under uncertainty are needed. This is especially difficult in a decentralized electricity market with many micro-producers which are not under central control. In this paper, we investigate the impact of eleven offline learning and five online learning algorithms to predict the electricity demand profile over the next 24 hours. We achieve this through integration within the long-term agent-based model, ElecSim. Through the prediction of electricity demand profile over the next 24 hours, we can simulate the predictions made for a day-ahead market. Once we have made these predictions, we sample from the residual distributions and perturb the electricity market demand using the simulation, ElecSim. This enables us to understand the impact of errors on the long-term dynamics of a decentralized electricity market.We show we can reduce the mean absolute error by 30\% using an online algorithm when compared to the best offline algorithm, whilst reducing the required tendered national grid reserve required. This reduction in national grid reserves leads to savings in costs and emissions. We also show that large errors in prediction accuracy have a disproportionate error on investments made over a 17-year time frame, as well as electricity mix.
Author(s): Kell AJM, McGough AS, Forshaw M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems
Year: 2021
Volume: 30
Print publication date: 01/06/2021
Online publication date: 04/03/2021
Acceptance date: 28/02/2021
Date deposited: 31/10/2020
ISSN (print): 2210-5379
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.suscom.2021.100532
DOI: 10.1016/j.suscom.2021.100532
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