An explainable machine learning approach for energy forecasting at the household level

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14416v1
• Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:29:10 GMT
• Title: An explainable machine learning approach for energy forecasting at the household level
• Authors: Pauline Béraud, Margaux Rioux, Michel Babany, Philippe de La Chevasnerie, Damien Theis, Giacomo Teodori, Chloé Pinguet, Romane Rigaud, François Leclerc,
• Abstract summary: Electricity forecasting has been a recurring research topic, as it is key to finding the right balance between production and consumption. While most papers are focused on the national or regional scale, few are interested in the household level. This paper specifically targets the challenges of forecasting electricity use at the household level.
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• Abstract: Electricity forecasting has been a recurring research topic, as it is key to finding the right balance between production and consumption. While most papers are focused on the national or regional scale, few are interested in the household level. Desegregated forecast is a common topic in Machine Learning (ML) literature but lacks explainability that household energy forecasts require. This paper specifically targets the challenges of forecasting electricity use at the household level. This paper confronts common Machine Learning algorithms to electricity household forecasts, weighing the pros and cons, including accuracy and explainability with well-known key metrics. Furthermore, we also confront them in this paper with the business challenges specific to this sector such as explainability or outliers resistance. We introduce a custom decision tree, aiming at providing a fair estimate of the energy consumption, while being explainable and consistent with human intuition. We show that this novel method allows greater explainability without sacrificing much accuracy. The custom tree methodology can be used in various business use cases but is subject to limitations, such as a lack of resilience with outliers.

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