Extrapolating the long-term seasonal component of electricity prices for forecasting in the day-ahead market

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Chęć, Katarzyna, Uniejewski, Bartosz, Weron, Rafał
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866929740533727232
author Chęć, Katarzyna
Uniejewski, Bartosz
Weron, Rafał
author_facet Chęć, Katarzyna
Uniejewski, Bartosz
Weron, Rafał
contents Recent studies provide evidence that decomposing the electricity price into the long-term seasonal component (LTSC) and the remaining part, predicting both separately, and then combining their forecasts can bring significant accuracy gains in day-ahead electricity price forecasting. However, not much attention has been paid to predicting the LTSC, and the last 24 hourly values of the estimated pattern are typically copied for the target day. To address this gap, we introduce a novel approach which extracts the trend-seasonal pattern from a price series extrapolated using price forecasts for the next 24 hours. We assess it using two 5-year long test periods from the German and Spanish power markets, covering the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2021/2022 energy crisis, and the war in Ukraine. Considering parsimonious autoregressive and LASSO-estimated models, we find that improvements in predictive accuracy range from 3\% to 15\% in terms of the root mean squared error and exceed 1\% in terms of profits from a realistic trading strategy involving day-ahead bidding and battery storage.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2503_02518
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Extrapolating the long-term seasonal component of electricity prices for forecasting in the day-ahead market
Chęć, Katarzyna
Uniejewski, Bartosz
Weron, Rafał
Statistical Finance
Econometrics
Risk Management
Recent studies provide evidence that decomposing the electricity price into the long-term seasonal component (LTSC) and the remaining part, predicting both separately, and then combining their forecasts can bring significant accuracy gains in day-ahead electricity price forecasting. However, not much attention has been paid to predicting the LTSC, and the last 24 hourly values of the estimated pattern are typically copied for the target day. To address this gap, we introduce a novel approach which extracts the trend-seasonal pattern from a price series extrapolated using price forecasts for the next 24 hours. We assess it using two 5-year long test periods from the German and Spanish power markets, covering the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2021/2022 energy crisis, and the war in Ukraine. Considering parsimonious autoregressive and LASSO-estimated models, we find that improvements in predictive accuracy range from 3\% to 15\% in terms of the root mean squared error and exceed 1\% in terms of profits from a realistic trading strategy involving day-ahead bidding and battery storage.
title Extrapolating the long-term seasonal component of electricity prices for forecasting in the day-ahead market
topic Statistical Finance
Econometrics
Risk Management
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02518