Coherent Load Profile Synthesis with Conditional Diffusion for LV Distribution Network Scenario Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12832v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:40:39 GMT
• Title: Coherent Load Profile Synthesis with Conditional Diffusion for LV Distribution Network Scenario Generation
• Authors: Alistair Brash, Junyi Lu, Bruce Stephen, Blair Brown, Robert Atkinson, Craig Michie, Fraser MacIntyre, Christos Tachtatzis,
• Abstract summary: Load profiling approaches often rely on summarising demand through typical profiles.<n>Co-behaviour between substations, which ultimately impacts higher voltage level network operation is often overlooked.<n>A Conditional Diffusion model for synthesising daily active and reactive power profiles at the low voltage distribution substation level is proposed.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Limited visibility of power distribution network power flows at the low voltage level presents challenges to both distribution network operators from a planning perspective and distribution system operators from a congestion management perspective. Forestalling these challenges through scenario analysis is confounded by the lack of realistic and coherent load data across representative distribution feeders. Load profiling approaches often rely on summarising demand through typical profiles, which oversimplifies the complexity of substation-level operations and limits their applicability in specific power system studies. Sampling methods, and more recently generative models, have attempted to address this through synthesising representative loads from historical exemplars; however, while these approaches can approximate load shapes to a convincing degree of fidelity, the co-behaviour between substations, which ultimately impacts higher voltage level network operation, is often overlooked. This limitation will become even more pronounced with the increasing integration of low-carbon technologies, as estimates of base loads fail to capture load diversity. To address this gap, a Conditional Diffusion model for synthesising daily active and reactive power profiles at the low voltage distribution substation level is proposed. The evaluation of fidelity is demonstrated through conventional metrics capturing temporal and statistical realism, as well as power flow modelling. The results show synthesised load profiles are plausible both independently and as a cohort in a wider power systems context. The Conditional Diffusion model is benchmarked against both naive and state-of-the-art models to demonstrate its effectiveness in producing realistic scenarios on which to base sub-regional power distribution network planning and operations.

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