A Short-Term Power Load Forecasting Method Based on SBOA–SVMD-TCN–BiLSTM

Short-term electricity load forecasting provides a basis for day-ahead energy scheduling. To improve the accuracy of short-term electricity load forecasts and deeply explore the temporal characteristics of load sequences, a method is proposed to extract predictable components of load sequences based on the secretary bird optimization algorithm (SBOA)-optimized successive variational mode decomposition (SVMD). This method decomposes the electricity load sequence into multiple subsequences under different time series. The combined forecasting architecture of the temporal convolutional network (TCN) and the bidirectional long short-term memory network (BiLSTM) is introduced to mine the temporal characteristics of each load component, resulting in short-term load forecasting outcomes. A case study is conducted using the annual electricity load data for the year 2018 from a specific region in Belgium. The experimental results show that the mean absolute error (MAE) of the TCN–BiLSTM model is reduced by 47.8%, 32.8%, and 11.5%, respectively, compared to other models. The root mean square error (RMSE) is reduced by 42.9%, 39.2%, and 11.3%, respectively, and the average goodness of fit R2 is reduced by 9.81%.