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Weather Feature Selection for Robust and Optimized Energy Load Prediction

This study explores the impact of weather features on short to medium electricity load prediction across diverse geographical locations. Using hourly load data, we evaluated the effectiveness of several feature selection methods, including Mutual Information (MI), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Lasso, and Heatmap correlation. We benchmarked these feature selection methods with a hybrid deep learning model to investigate the impact of choosing…

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A Deep Generative Model for Selecting Representative Periods in Renewable Energy-Integrated Power Systems

In this paper, a new deep learning-based two-stage dataset-clustering/temporal-clustering method is proposed for time aggregation in renewable energy-integrated power systems. In this way, for the first time, the representative period, including one or more representative days, is obtained using a GAN-based model in which the LSTM Network is embedded in both generator and discriminator models.…

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Eurasian Review, Shoring Up The West’s Grid Against Extreme Weather

The U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid brings together leading experts in power engineering, climate, forestry, data analysis, policy and social sciences from a network of 35 partners. This new interdisciplinary center is aimed at fortifying the region’s power infrastructure against the floods, high winds, drought, even cold snaps that are also taking a…

Map of the areas of the US and Canada where the Western Interconnected Grid is along with logos of the partners in the climate resilient centre for it.

Launch of Western Interconnected Grid

The University of Calgary and the University of Utah will establish and co-lead the U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid through $5M funding by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and $3.75M funding by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Commonly known as “the Western Interconnection,” it is one of two…