{"title":"PCA-based Least Squares Support Vector Machines in Week-Ahead Load Forecasting","authors":"M. Afshin, Alireza Sadeghian","doi":"10.1109/ICPS.2007.4292100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPS.2007.4292100","url":null,"abstract":"Week-ahead load forecasting is essential in the planning activities of every electricity production and distribution company. This paper proposes the application of principal component analysis (PCA) to least squares support vector machines (LS-SVM) in a week-ahead load forecasting problem. New realistic features are added to better and more efficiently train the model. For instance, it was found that hours of daylight are influential in shaping the load profile. This is particularly important in case of cities that are situated in the northern hemisphere. To show the effectiveness, the introduced model is being trained and tested on the data of the historical load obtained from Ontario's independent electricity system operator (IESO) for the Canadian metropolis, Toronto. Analysis of the experimental results proves that LS-SVM by feature extraction using PCA can achieve greater accuracy and faster speed than other models including LS-SVM without feature extraction and the popular feed forward back-propagation neural network (FFBP) model.","PeriodicalId":285052,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE/IAS Industrial & Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121648037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic Parameter Tuning Based Upon System Transient Response","authors":"F. Shokooh, J. Dai","doi":"10.1109/ICPS.2007.4292080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPS.2007.4292080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":285052,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE/IAS Industrial & Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115321463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrical Safety and Arc Flash in the Industrial & Commercial Environment","authors":"D. Roberts","doi":"10.1109/icps.2007.4292118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icps.2007.4292118","url":null,"abstract":"There are two basic hazards associated energized electrical equipment – shock and arc flash and blast. Governments have established minimum standards of safety care through occupational health and safety legislation. However, legislation is seldom specific enough to provide guidance as to how to meet those standards of care. NFPA 70E Electrical Safety in the Workplace and the soon to be released parallel Canadian document CSA Z462 provides the how-to knowledge for electrical safety. This tutorial will discuss the development and current state of these two standards, including some of the challenges facing the committees involved in the current revision cycle. The tutorial will explain the key safe work practices contained in these documents: qualifying the electrical worker, job planning, establishing an electrical safety program, creating an electrically safe work condition, shock and arc flash hazard analysis, shock and arc flash protection boundaries. These work practices will be framed in the context of occupational health and safety legislation.","PeriodicalId":285052,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE/IAS Industrial & Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116136585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}