Regularization for electricity price forecasting

Bartosz Uniejewski

Operations Research and Decisions, 2024, vol. 34, issue 3, 267-286

Abstract: The most commonly used form of regularization typically involves defining the penalty function as a ℓ1 or ℓ2 norm. However, numerous alternative approaches remain untested in practical applications. In this study, we apply ten different penalty functions to predict electricity prices and evaluate their performance under two different model structures and in two distinct electricity markets. The study reveals that LQ and elastic net consistently produce more accurate forecasts compared to other regularization types. In particular, they were the only types of penalty functions that consistently produced more accurate forecasts than the most commonly used LASSO. Furthermore, the results suggest that cross-validation outperforms Bayesian information criteria for parameter optimization, and performs as well as models with ex-post parameter selection.

Keywords: electricity price forecasting; regularization; power market; convex regularization; LQ regularization; elastic net (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.37190/ord240314

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