Winners Announced for Global Energy Forecasting Competition 2014

At 2015 PES General Meeting held in Denver, CO, we announced the winning universities and teams of Global Energy Forecasting Competition 2014 (GEFCom2014). The picture below was taken right before the award reception.

I'm delighted to post the winners here.

Three winning universities for the institute prize:

Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia

• Faculty advisor: Olesya Shesterneva
• Contributing teams: E.S. Mangalova (Load #5, Price #8, Wind #3); Arkadiy Strelnikov (Price #6); SAOR (Load #15); Power Team SAOR (Solar #15)

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

• Faculty advisor: Tao Hong
• Contributing teams: Jingrui (Rain) Xie (Load #3); Yanghai Cong (Price #7); Bidong Liu (Load #8);  Jiali Liu (Wind #8); Florencio Gonzalez (Price #9); Ying Chen (Solar  #9); Christopher Benfield (Load #11); Mohamed Abuella (Solar #12); Nikolina (Load  #13)

Tsinghua University, China

• Faculty advisor: Chongqing Kang
• Contributing teams: T_morning (Solar #6); THU_EILAB#6 (Solar #8); Sniper (Load #10)

Five winning teams from each of the four tracks:

Probabilistic Electric Load Forecasting Track

• Pierre Gaillard, Yannig Goude, and  Raphaël Nedellec (EDF R&D, France)
• Virginie Dornonnat, Audrey Pichavant, and Amandine Pierrot (EDF R&D, France)
• Jingrui Xie (University of North Carolina at Charlotte and SAS Institute Inc, USA).
• Georgios Giasemidis (Countinglab Limited, UK) and Stephen Haben (University of Oxford, UK)
• Ekaterina Mangalova (Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia)

Probabilistic Electricity Price Forecasting Track

• Pierre Gaillard, Yannig Goude, and  Raphaël Nedellec (EDF R&D, France)
• Katarzyna Maciejowska and Jakub Nowotarski (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
• Grzegorz Dudek (Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland)
• Zico Kolter (C3 Energy and Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Romain Juban (C3 Energy, USA), Henrik Ohlsson (C3 Energy and University of California, Berkeley, USA), and Mehdi Maasoumy (C3 Energy, USA)
• Frank Lemke (KnowledgeMiner Software, Germany)

Probabilistic Wind Power Forecasting Track

• Mark Landry, Thomas P Erlinger, David Patschke, and Craig Varrichio (Eigen Analytics, USA)
• Gabor Nagy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Gyula Borbely (DMLab, Hungary), Gabor Simon (DMLab, Hungary), and Gergo Barta (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
• Ekaterina Mangalova (Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia)
• Zico Kolter (C3 Energy and Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Romain Juban (C3 Energy, USA), Henrik Ohlsson (C3 Energy and University of California, Berkeley, USA), and Mehdi Maasoumy (C3 Energy, USA)
• Yao Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)

Probabilistic Solar Power Forecasting Track

• Jing Huang and Matthew Perry (CSIRO, Australia)
• Gabor Nagy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Gyula Borbely (DMLab, Hungary), Gabor Simon (DMLab, Hungary), and Gergo Barta (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
• Zico Kolter (C3 Energy and Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Romain Juban (C3 Energy, USA), Henrik Ohlsson (C3 Energy and University of California, Berkeley, USA), and Mehdi Maasoumy (C3 Energy, USA)
• Duehee Lee (University of Texas at Austin, USA), Zhi Zhou (Argonne National Laboratory, USA), Yongsung Kwon (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• Giuseppe Casalicchio (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)

The original press release from IEEE PES is HERE. The detailed leaderboard is HERE. For more information about GEFCom2014, please visit the competition website and the related blog posts.