no code implementations • 23 Jun 2023 • Simon Hirsch, Florian Ziel
We validate our approach in a simulation study for the German intraday electricity market and find that modelling the dependence structure improves the forecasting performance.
1 code implementation • 17 Mar 2023 • Jonathan Berrisch, Florian Ziel
A fast C++ implementation of the proposed algorithm is provided in the open-source R-Package profoc on CRAN.
no code implementations • 23 Nov 2022 • Simon Hirsch, Florian Ziel
We validate our modelling by simulating price paths and compare the probabilistic forecasting performance of our model to benchmark models in a forecasting study for the German market.
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2022 • Jonathan Berrisch, Sven Pappert, Florian Ziel, Antonia Arsova
We study the prices of European Emission Allowances (EUA), whereby we analyze their uncertainty and dependencies on related energy prices (natural gas, coal, and oil).
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2022 • Grzegorz Marcjasz, Michał Narajewski, Rafał Weron, Florian Ziel
We present a novel approach to probabilistic electricity price forecasting which utilizes distributional neural networks.
no code implementations • 7 Mar 2022 • Jonathan Berrisch, Michał Narajewski, Florian Ziel
This holds regarding the competition month and the supplementary evaluation study, which covers an additional eleven months.
no code implementations • 14 Jul 2021 • Florian Ziel
The M5 competition uncertainty track aims for probabilistic forecasting of sales of thousands of Walmart retail goods.
no code implementations • 13 Jul 2021 • Florian Ziel
It contains four steps: i) data cleaning and preprocessing, ii) a holiday adjustment procedure, iii) training of individual forecasting models, iv) forecast combination by smoothed Bernstein Online Aggregation (BOA).
no code implementations • 29 Apr 2021 • Michał Narajewski, Florian Ziel
This paper addresses the question of how much to bid to maximize the profit when trading in two electricity markets: the hourly Day-Ahead Auction and the quarter-hourly Intraday Auction.
no code implementations • 26 Apr 2021 • Michał Narajewski, Jens Kley-Holsteg, Florian Ziel
Data cleaning is a crucial part of every data analysis exercise.
1 code implementation • 1 Feb 2021 • Jonathan Berrisch, Florian Ziel
However, the quality of different forecasts may vary not only over time but also within the distribution.
no code implementations • 16 Sep 2020 • Christopher Kath, Florian Ziel
Taking the German continuous hourly intraday market as an example, this paper derives an appropriate model for electricity trading.
no code implementations • 29 May 2020 • Florian Ziel
We discuss the choice of energy distance in detail, especially in comparison to the popular Wasserstein distance which is dominating the scenario reduction literature.
no code implementations • 9 May 2020 • Jens Kley-Holsteg, Florian Ziel
Water demand is a highly important variable for operational control and decision making.
no code implementations • 4 May 2020 • Michał Narajewski, Florian Ziel
A generalized additive model is fitted to the price differences with the assumption that they follow a zero-inflated distribution, precisely a mixture of the Dirac and the Student's t-distributions.
no code implementations • 16 Oct 2019 • Florian Ziel, Kevin Berk
The results also show that a proposed copula score provides very strong distinction between models with correct and incorrect dependency structure.
no code implementations • 20 May 2019 • Christopher Kath, Florian Ziel
We discuss a concept denoted as Conformal Prediction (CP) in this paper.
no code implementations • 10 Sep 2018 • Florian Ziel
The hourly load data is log transformed and split into a long-term trend component and a remainder term.
no code implementations • 17 May 2018 • Florian Ziel, Rafal Weron
We conduct an extensive empirical study on short-term electricity price forecasting (EPF) to address the long-standing question if the optimal model structure for EPF is univariate or multivariate.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2016 • Florian Ziel, Carsten Croonenbroeck, Daniel Ambach
In this article we present an approach that enables joint wind speed and wind power forecasts for a wind park.
no code implementations • 4 Mar 2016 • Florian Ziel, Bidong Liu
We present a methodology for probabilistic load forecasting that is based on lasso (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator) estimation.
no code implementations • 23 Feb 2015 • Florian Ziel
Shrinkage algorithms are of great importance in almost every area of statistics due to the increasing impact of big data.
no code implementations • 5 Jan 2015 • Florian Ziel, Rick Steinert, Sven Husmann
In our paper we analyze the relationship between the day-ahead electricity price of the Energy Exchange Austria (EXAA) and other day-ahead electricity prices in Europe.
no code implementations • 27 Feb 2014 • Florian Ziel, Rick Steinert, Sven Husmann
The increasing importance of renewable energy, especially solar and wind power, has led to new forces in the formation of electricity prices.