Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Language

eng

Format of Original

5 p.

Publication Date

7-26-2015

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Source Publication

IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)

Source ISSN

1932-5517

Abstract

This paper presents a novel detrending algorithm that allows long-term natural gas demand signals to be used effectively to generate high quality short-term natural gas demand forecasting models. Short data sets in natural gas forecasting inadequately represent the range of consumption patterns necessary for accurate short-term forecasting. In contrast, longer data sets present a wide range of customer characteristics, but their long-term historical trends must be adjusted to resemble recent data before models can be developed. Our approach detrends historical natural gas data using domain knowledge. Forecasting models trained on data detrended using our algorithm are more accurate than models trained using nondetrended data or data detrended by benchmark methods. Forecasting accuracy improves using detrended longer-term signals, while forecast accuracy decreases using non-detrended long-term signals.

Comments

Accepted version. Published as part of the proceedings of the conference, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 2015: 1-5. DOI. © 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Used with permission.

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