A novel cloud-edge collaboration based short-term load forecasting method for smart grid

Abstract

With the increasing development of smart grid technology, short-term load forecasting becomes particularly important in power system operation. However, the design of accurate and reliable short-term load forecasting methods and models is challenging due to the volatility and intermittency of renewable energy sources, as well as the privacy and individual characteristics of electricity consumption data from user data. To overcome this issue, in this paper, a novel cloud-edge collaboration short-term load forecasting method is proposed for smart grid. In order to reduce the computational load of edge nodes and improve the accuracy of node prediction, we use the method of building a model pre-training pool to train multiple pre-training models in the cloud layer at the same time. Then we use edge nodes to retrain the pre-trained model, select the optimal model and update the model parameters to achieve short-term load forecasting. To assure the validity of the model and the confidentiality of private data, we utilize the model pre-training pool to minimize edge node training difficulty and employ the approach of secondary edge node training. Finally, extensive experiments confirm the efficacy of our proposed method.