Context-Aware Asymmetric Conformal Calibration of Renewable-Power Prediction Intervals for Day-Ahead Operational Risk Assessment

High renewable penetration makes day-ahead operation sensitive to the directional effects of wind and photovoltaic forecast errors. Conventional prediction intervals mainly evaluate coverage and sharpness, but lower- and upper-boundary violations correspond to different operational risks: shortage-side supply-adequacy pressure and accommodation-side curtailment pressure. This paper proposes context-aware asymmetric conformal quantile regression (CA-ACQR) to construct directional renewable-power risk intervals. The method builds separate conformal scores for the two interval sides, estimates context-dependent boundary corrections, and reallocates the tail-risk budget under supply-priority, balanced, and accommodation-priority profiles. Case studies use regional wind and photovoltaic power data, with contextual groups defined by renewable type, lead-time block, forecast difficulty, weather-risk regime, and output level. CA-ACQR increases the prediction interval coverage probability (PICP) from 91.11% to 94.07% and reduces the accommodation-side violation rate from 4.37% to 1.44%. The results demonstrate selectable directional risk postures and quantify trade-offs among interval width, directional violations, normalized stress cost, and the 95% conditional value-at-risk stress cost.

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Energies
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2026-07-30
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https://doi.org/10.3390/en19153575
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Energy Load and Power Forecasting
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Abstract

High renewable penetration makes day-ahead operation sensitive to the directional effects of wind and photovoltaic forecast errors. Conventional prediction intervals mainly evaluate coverage and sharpness, but lower- and upper-boundary violations correspond to different operational risks: shortage-side supply-adequacy pressure and accommodation-side curtailment pressure. This paper proposes context-aware asymmetric conformal quantile regression (CA-ACQR) to construct directional renewable-power risk intervals. The method builds separate conformal scores for the two interval sides, estimates context-dependent boundary corrections, and reallocates the tail-risk budget under supply-priority, balanced, and accommodation-priority profiles. Case studies use regional wind and photovoltaic power data, with contextual groups defined by renewable type, lead-time block, forecast difficulty, weather-risk regime, and output level. CA-ACQR increases the prediction interval coverage probability (PICP) from 91.11% to 94.07% and reduces the accommodation-side violation rate from 4.37% to 1.44%. The results demonstrate selectable directional risk postures and quantify trade-offs among interval width, directional violations, normalized stress cost, and the 95% conditional value-at-risk stress cost.

EnergiesVol. 19(15)
Electric Power Research Institute (US), State Grid Corporation of China (China) (CN), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN), Shanghai Electric (China) (CN)
Science and Technology Project of State Grid
Affordable and clean energy
Openalex Percentile: Top 16%
Energy Load and Power Forecasting
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