Data-driven Calibration Sample Selection and Forecast Combination in Electricity Price Forecasting: An Application of the ARHNN Method

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15011v1
• Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:49:33 GMT
• Title: Data-driven Calibration Sample Selection and Forecast Combination in Electricity Price Forecasting: An Application of the ARHNN Method
• Authors: Tomasz Serafin, Weronika Nitka,
• Abstract summary: We apply the Autoregressive Hybrid Nearest Neighbors (ARHNN) method to three long-term time series describing the German, Spanish and New England electricity markets.<n>We show that it outperforms popular literature benchmarks in terms of forecast accuracy by up to 10%.<n>We also propose two simplified variants of the method, granting a vast decrease in time with only minor loss of prediction accuracy.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Calibration sample selection and forecast combination are two simple yet powerful tools used in forecasting. They can be combined with a variety of models to significantly improve prediction accuracy, at the same time offering easy implementation and low computational complexity. While their effectiveness has been repeatedly confirmed in prior scientific literature, the topic is still underexplored in the field of electricity price forecasting. In this research article we apply the Autoregressive Hybrid Nearest Neighbors (ARHNN) method to three long-term time series describing the German, Spanish and New England electricity markets. We show that it outperforms popular literature benchmarks in terms of forecast accuracy by up to 10%. We also propose two simplified variants of the method, granting a vast decrease in computation time with only minor loss of prediction accuracy. Finally, we compare the forecasts' performance in a battery storage system trading case study. We find that using a forecast-driven strategy can achieve up to 80% of theoretical maximum profits while trading, demonstrating business value in practical applications.

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