BP neural network with rough set for short term load forecasting

  • Authors:
  • Zhi Xiao;Shi-Jie Ye;Bo Zhong;Cai-Xin Sun

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, 400044 Chongqing, China;College of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, 400044 Chongqing, China;College of Mathematics and Physics, Chongqing University, 400044 Chongqing, China;Key Laboratory of High Voltage Engineering and Electrical New Technology, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, 400044 Chongqing, China

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Precise Short term load forecasting (STLF) plays a significant role in the management of power system of countries and regions on the grounds of insufficient electric energy for increased need. This paper presents an approach of back propagation neural network with rough set (RSBP) for complicated STLF with dynamic and non-linear factors to develop the accuracy of predictions. Through attribute reduction based on variable precision with rough set, the influence of noise data and weak interdependency data to BP is avoided so the time taken for training is decreased. Using load time series from a practical power system, we tested the performance of RSBP by comparing its predictions with that of BP network.