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TimeGPT in load forecasting: A large time series model perspective

Fernando Porté Agel, Jiannong Fang, Wenlong Liao

Machine learning models have made significant progress in load forecasting, but their forecast accuracy is limited in cases where historical load data is scarce. Inspired by the outstanding performance of large language models (LLMs) in computer vision and ...

2025

Improving the accuracy and interpretability of neural networks for wind power forecasting

Fernando Porté Agel, Jiannong Fang, Wenlong Liao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are receiving increasing attention in wind power forecasting due to their ability to effectively capture complex patterns in wind data. However, their forecast errors are severely limited by the local optimal weight issue in opt ...

2025

Explainable Fault Diagnosis of Oil-Immersed Transformers: A Glass-Box Model

Wenlong Liao

Recently, remarkable progress has been made in the application of machine learning (ML) techniques (e.g., neural networks) to transformer fault diagnosis. However, the diagnostic processes employed by these techniques often suffer from a lack of interpreta ...

2024

Research on optimal scheduling of a photovoltaic-storage-charging integrated power station based on intraday two-stage model predictive control

Wenlong Liao

With the rapid development of electric vehicles, photovoltaic-storage-charging stations that supply power to electric vehicles are becoming increasingly important. To optimize the energy scheduling of integrated photovoltaic-storage-charging stations, impr ...

AIP Publishing2025

Enhancing multivariate, multi-step residential load forecasting with spatiotemporal graph attention-enabled transformer

Wenlong Liao

Short-term residential load forecasting (STRLF) holds great significance for the stable and economic operation of distributed power systems. Different households in the same region may exhibit similar consumption patterns owing to the analogous environment ...

2024

Can we trust explainable artificial intelligence in wind power forecasting?

Fernando Porté Agel, Jiannong Fang, Wenlong Liao

Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models typically achieve high accuracy in wind power forecasting, but their internal mechanisms lack interpretability, which undermines user confidence in forecast value and strategy execution. To this end, this paper ...

Elsevier BV2024

Minkowski Distance Based Pilot Protection for Tie Lines Between Offshore Wind Farms and MMC

Wenlong Liao

Offshore wind farms (OWFs) with modular multilevel converter high-voltage dc (MMC-HVdc) have become an important form of renewable energy utilization. However, if a fault occurs at the tie line between the MMC and the OWF, the fault steady-state current at ...

2024

Explainable modeling for wind power forecasting: A Glass-Box model with high accuracy

Fernando Porté Agel, Jiannong Fang, Wenlong Liao

Machine learning models (e.g., neural networks) achieve high accuracy in wind power forecasting, but they are usually regarded as black boxes that lack interpretability. To address this issue, the paper proposes a glass-box model that combines high accurac ...

2025

Reducing Annotation Efforts in Electricity Theft Detection Through Optimal Sample Selection

Wenlong Liao

Supervised machine learning models are receiving increasing attention in electricity theft detection due to their high detection accuracy. However, their performance depends on a massive amount of labeled training data, which comes from time-consuming and ...

2024

Control-Based Distance Protection for Tie Line Between Offshore Wind Farms and MMC During Single-Phase Grounding and Interphase Faults

Wenlong Liao

Offshore wind farms (OWFs) are often connected to onshore systems via a modular multilevel converter (MMC)-high voltage dc (HVDC) line. However, for the tie line between the OWF and the MMC, the unique fault behaviors will threaten the correct operation of ...

2025