Forecasting Day-Ahead Electricity Prices: Utilizing Hourly Prices

Eran Raviv, Kees E. Bouwman and Dick van Dijk
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Eran Raviv: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Kees E. Bouwman: Erasmus University Rotterdam

No 13-068/III, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: This discussion paper led to a publication in 'Energy Economics' , 2015, 50, 227-239.

The daily average price of electricity represents the price of electricity to be delivered over the full next day and serves as a key reference price in the electricity market. It is an aggregate that equals the average of hourly prices for delivery during each of the 24 individual hours. This paper demonstrates that the disaggregated hourly prices contain useful predictive information for the daily average price. Multivariate models for the full panel of hourly prices significantly outperform univariate models of the daily average price, with reductions in Root Mean Squared Error of up to 16%. Substantial care is required in order to achieve these forecast improvements. Rich multivariate models are needed to exploit the relations between different hourly prices, but the risk of overfitting must be mitigated by using dimension reduction techniques, shrinkage and forecast combinations.

Keywords: Electricity market; Forecasting; Hourly prices; Dimension reduction; Shrinkage; Forecast combinations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 C53 Q47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-05-17
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-for and nep-reg
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