Improved Active and Reactive Energy Forecasting Using a Stacking Ensemble Approach: Steel Industry Case Study

Hamza Mubarak, Mohammad J. Sanjari (), Sascha Stegen and Abdallah Abdellatif
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Hamza Mubarak: School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Southport, QLD 4222, Australia
Mohammad J. Sanjari: School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Southport, QLD 4222, Australia
Sascha Stegen: School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
Abdallah Abdellatif: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 21, 1-32

Abstract: The prevalence of substantial inductive/capacitive loads within the industrial sectors induces variations in reactive energy levels. The imbalance between active and reactive energy within the network leads to heightened losses, diminished network efficiency, and an associated escalation in operating costs. Therefore, the forecasting of active and reactive energy in the industrial sector confers notable advantages, including cost reduction, heightened operational efficiency, safeguarding of equipment, enhanced energy consumption management, and more effective assimilation of renewable energy sources. Consequently, a range of specialized forecasting methods for different applications have been developed to address these challenges effectively. This research proposes a stacked ensemble methodology, denoted as Stack-XGBoost, leveraging three distinct machine learning (ML) methods: extra trees regressor (ETR), adaptive boosting (AdaBoost), and random forest regressor (RFR), as foundational models. Moreover, the incorporation of an extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) algorithm as a meta-learner serves to amalgamate the predictions generated by the base models, enhancing the precision of the active/reactive energy consumption forecasting using real time data for steel industry. To assess the efficacy of the proposed model, diverse performance metrics were employed. The results show that the proposed Stack-XGBoost model outperformed other forecasting methods. Additionally, a sensitivity analysis was conducted to assess the robustness of the proposed method against variations in input parameters.

Keywords: active/reactive energy forecasting; industrial energy consumption; short-term forecasting; energy management; machine learning; ensemble model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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