Datasets for Energy Forecasting

Reproducible research is a key to advancing knowledge. In energy forecasting, it is necessary and crucial that researchers compare their models and methods using the same datasets. Five years ago when we founded the IEEE Working Group on Energy Forecasting, "lack of benchmark data pool" was one of the issues we identified. Fortunately, things have been changing toward the right direction over the past few years. More and more datasets are being made available to and recognized by the energy forecasting community.

This post will serve as the starting point of a blog series on datasets. In each post, I will feature a dataset and discuss how to use it. I will also host the datasets on Dropbox and provide the links in these posts. Meanwhile, I would like to take a crowd-sourcing approach to making a comprehensive and widely accessible data pool:

• If you can host the datasets through other channels, please contact me. 
• If you know of some public datasets that are not on my list, please contact me. 
• If you have some private datasets that can be made available to the energy forecasting community, please contact me. 

Here is a list of 9 posts with the publicly available data that I have used in my papers. I will update the list with links and additional data sources, so check this page from time to time to see if there is something you need.

Electric load forecasting

1. GEFCom2012
2. GEFCom2014
3. ISO New England
4. RWE npower forecasting challenge 2015

Gas load forecasting

1. RWE npower forecasting challenge 2015

Electricity price forecasting

1. GEFCom2014

Wind power forecasting

1. GEFCom2012
2. GEFCom2014

Solar power forecasting

1. GEFCom2014

Stay tuned...