Overview Statistic: PDF-Downloads (blue) and Frontdoor-Views (gray)

Forecasting day-ahead high-resolution natural-gas demand and supply in Germany

  • Forecasting natural gas demand and supply is essential for an efficient operation of the German gas distribution system and a basis for the operational decisions of the transmission system operators. The German gas market is moving towards more short-term planning, in particular, day-ahead contracts. This increases the difficulty that the operators in the dispatching centre are facing, as well as the necessity of accurate forecasts. This paper presents a novel predictive model that provides day-ahead forecasts of the high resolution gas flow by developing a Functional AutoRegressive model with eXogenous variables (FARX). The predictive model allows the dynamic patterns of hourly gas flows to be described in a wide range of historical profiles, while also taking the relevant determinants data into account. By taking into account a richer set of information, FARX provides stronger performance in real data analysis, with both accuracy and high computational efficiency. Compared to several alternative models in out-of-sample forecasts, the proposed model can improve forecast accuracy by at least 12% and up to 5-fold for one node, 3% to 2-fold and 2-fold to 4-fold for the other two nodes. The results show that lagged 1-day gas flow and nominations are important predictors, and with their presence in the forecast model, temperature becomes insignificant for short-term predictions.

Export metadata

Additional Services

Share in Twitter Search Google Scholar Statistics - number of accesses to the document
Metadaten
Author:Ying ChenORCiD, Wee Song Chua, Thorsten KochORCiD
Document Type:Article
Parent Title (English):Applied Energy
Issue:Volume 228
First Page:1091
Last Page:1110
Year of first publication:2018
DOI:https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.06.137
Accept ✔
Diese Webseite verwendet technisch erforderliche Session-Cookies. Durch die weitere Nutzung der Webseite stimmen Sie diesem zu. Unsere Datenschutzerklärung finden Sie hier.