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.
Authors
- Peng Han (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8675-9656)
- Yizhou Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9888-6409)
- Xuehai Yu
- Ran Li
- Yu Liu
- Jun Zhao
Institutions
- Electric Power Research Institute (US)
- State Grid Corporation of China (China) (CN)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
- Shanghai Electric (China) (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Energies
- Published
- 2026-07-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/en19153575
- Primary Topic
- Energy Load and Power Forecasting
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Science and Technology Project of State Grid