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Main Authors: Shao, Chen, Wang, Yue, Zhu, Zhenyi, Huang, Zhanbo, Pütz, Sebastian, Schäfer, Benjamin, Käfer, Tobais, Färber, Michael
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05768
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author Shao, Chen
Wang, Yue
Zhu, Zhenyi
Huang, Zhanbo
Pütz, Sebastian
Schäfer, Benjamin
Käfer, Tobais
Färber, Michael
author_facet Shao, Chen
Wang, Yue
Zhu, Zhenyi
Huang, Zhanbo
Pütz, Sebastian
Schäfer, Benjamin
Käfer, Tobais
Färber, Michael
contents Energy forecasting is vital for grid reliability and operational efficiency. Although recent advances in time series forecasting have led to progress, existing benchmarks remain limited in spatial and temporal scope and lack multi-energy features. This raises concerns about their reliability and applicability in real-world deployment. To address this, we present the Real-E dataset, covering over 74 power stations across 30+ European countries over a 10-year span with rich metadata. Using Real- E, we conduct an extensive data analysis and benchmark over 20 baselines across various model types. We introduce a new metric to quantify shifts in correlation structures and show that existing methods struggle on our dataset, which exhibits more complex and non-stationary correlation dynamics. Our findings highlight key limitations of current methods and offer a strong empirical basis for building more robust forecasting models
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spellingShingle Real-E: A Foundation Benchmark for Advancing Robust and Generalizable Electricity Forecasting
Shao, Chen
Wang, Yue
Zhu, Zhenyi
Huang, Zhanbo
Pütz, Sebastian
Schäfer, Benjamin
Käfer, Tobais
Färber, Michael
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Energy forecasting is vital for grid reliability and operational efficiency. Although recent advances in time series forecasting have led to progress, existing benchmarks remain limited in spatial and temporal scope and lack multi-energy features. This raises concerns about their reliability and applicability in real-world deployment. To address this, we present the Real-E dataset, covering over 74 power stations across 30+ European countries over a 10-year span with rich metadata. Using Real- E, we conduct an extensive data analysis and benchmark over 20 baselines across various model types. We introduce a new metric to quantify shifts in correlation structures and show that existing methods struggle on our dataset, which exhibits more complex and non-stationary correlation dynamics. Our findings highlight key limitations of current methods and offer a strong empirical basis for building more robust forecasting models
title Real-E: A Foundation Benchmark for Advancing Robust and Generalizable Electricity Forecasting
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05768