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Forecasting day-ahead electricity prices: A review of state-of-the-art algorithms, best practices and an open-access benchmark

Jesus Lago, Grzegorz Marcjasz, Bart De Schutter and Rafał Weron

Applied Energy, 2021, vol. 293, issue C, No S0306261921004529

Abstract: While the field of electricity price forecasting has benefited from plenty of contributions in the last two decades, it arguably lacks a rigorous approach to evaluating new predictive algorithms. The latter are often compared using unique, not publicly available datasets and across too short and limited to one market test samples. The proposed new methods are rarely benchmarked against well established and well performing simpler models, the accuracy metrics are sometimes inadequate and testing the significance of differences in predictive performance is seldom conducted. Consequently, it is not clear which methods perform well nor what are the best practices when forecasting electricity prices. In this paper, we tackle these issues by comparing state-of-the-art statistical and deep learning methods across multiple years and markets, and by putting forward a set of best practices. In addition, we make available the considered datasets, forecasts of the state-of-the-art models, and a specifically designed python toolbox, so that new algorithms can be rigorously evaluated in future studies.

Keywords: Electricity price forecasting; Regression model; Deep learning; Open-access benchmark; Forecast evaluation; Best practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116983

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