@misc{GamrathPetkovic, author = {Gamrath, Inken and Petkovic, Milena}, title = {Prediction of Intermitted Flows in Large Gas Networks}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-73717}, language = {en} } @article{PetkovicChenGamrathetal., author = {Petkovic, Milena and Chen, Ying and Gamrath, Inken and Gotzes, Uwe and Hadjidimitrou, Natalia Selini and Zittel, Janina and Xu, Xiaofei and Koch, Thorsten}, title = {A hybrid approach for high precision prediction of gas flows}, series = {Energy Systems}, volume = {13}, journal = {Energy Systems}, doi = {10.1007/s12667-021-00466-4}, pages = {383 -- 408}, abstract = {About 23\% of the German energy demand is supplied by natural gas. Additionally, for about the same amount Germany serves as a transit country. Thereby, the German network represents a central hub in the European natural gas transport network. The transport infrastructure is operated by transmissions system operators (TSOs). The number one priority of the TSOs is to ensure the security of supply. However, the TSOs have only very limited knowledge about the intentions and planned actions of the shippers (traders). Open Grid Europe (OGE), one of Germany's largest TSO, operates a high-pressure transport network of about 12,000 km length. With the introduction of peak-load gas power stations, it is of great importance to predict in- and out-flow of the network to ensure the necessary flexibility and security of supply for the German Energy Transition ("Energiewende"). In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid forecast method applied to gas flows at the boundary nodes of a transport network. This method employs an optimized feature selection and minimization. We use a combination of a FAR, LSTM and mathematical programming to achieve robust high-quality forecasts on real-world data for different types of network nodes.}, language = {en} } @misc{PetkovicChenGamrathetal., author = {Petkovic, Milena and Chen, Ying and Gamrath, Inken and Gotzes, Uwe and Hadjidimitriou, Natalia Selini and Zittel, Janina and Xu, Xiaofei and Koch, Thorsten}, title = {A Hybrid Approach for High Precision Prediction of Gas Flows}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-73525}, abstract = {About 20\% of the German energy demand is supplied by natural gas. Ad- ditionally, for about twice the amount Germany serves as a transit country. Thereby, the German network represents a central hub in the European natural gas transport network. The transport infrastructure is operated by so-called transmissions system operators or TSOs. The number one priority of the TSOs is to ensure security of supply. However, the TSOs have no knowledge of the intentions and planned actions of the shippers (traders). Open Grid Europe (OGE), one of Germany's largest TSO, operates a high- pressure transport network of about 12.000 km length. Since flexibility and security of supply is of utmost importance to the German Energy Transition ("Energiewende") especially with the introduction of peak-load gas power stations, being able to predict in- and out-flow of the network is of great importance. In this paper we introduce a new hybrid forecast method applied to gas flows at the boundary nodes of a transport network. The new method employs optimized feature minimization and selection. We use a combination of an FAR, LSTM DNN and mathematical programming to achieve robust high quality forecasts on real world data for different types of network nodes. Keywords: Gas Forecast, Time series, Hybrid Method, FAR, LSTM, Mathematical Optimisation}, language = {en} }