On the Research of the Smart Grid Load Forecasting Cloud Platform Architecture

Load forecasting is making calculations or predictions of a future event or condition based on analysis or study of historical data, events or observations. With the development of smart grid, smart meter is also increasing largely, which can generate metering data per 15 mins, and there comes a huge amount of metering data. Thus such huge amount of data leads to some challenges in data processing. This paper introduces the meaning of studying load forecasting, and recommends current relevant research. Then, the cloud platform architecture, the key technologies based cloud and current relevant research for load forecasting based on cloud in smart grid is discussed. Finally it introduces the related load forecasting services based on the cloud platform architecture in smart grid. After all, there is a conclusion of this paper.