Transfer Learning for Electricity Demand Forecasting in Nordic Cities : A Case Study of Copenhagen and Reykjavik
(2025) 32nd International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, IWSSIP 2025 In International Conference on Systems, Signals, and Image Processing- Abstract
In Nordic countries, demand response (DR) programs are critical for enhancing energy flexibility and reducing peak electricity consumption in buildings and industry. Accurate short-term demand forecasting is essential to support these programs, especially in the context of cities with varying levels of data availability. This paper compares three different forecasting approaches for hourly electricity demand prediction in the Nordic region: a baseline Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model, a transfer learning (TL)-based LSTM model, and a tree-based Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model. We use Copenhagen, Denmark as a data-rich source city to pretrain an LSTM and fine-tune it on limited data from Reykjavik, Iceland simulating a... (More)
In Nordic countries, demand response (DR) programs are critical for enhancing energy flexibility and reducing peak electricity consumption in buildings and industry. Accurate short-term demand forecasting is essential to support these programs, especially in the context of cities with varying levels of data availability. This paper compares three different forecasting approaches for hourly electricity demand prediction in the Nordic region: a baseline Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model, a transfer learning (TL)-based LSTM model, and a tree-based Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model. We use Copenhagen, Denmark as a data-rich source city to pretrain an LSTM and fine-tune it on limited data from Reykjavik, Iceland simulating a low-data target environment. The results show that while XGBoost performs best with well-engineered features, TL offers a robust and scalable alternative in data-scarce scenarios, especially where traditional features may be limited or incomplete.
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- author
- Javidsharifi, Mahshid ; Arabani, Hamoun Pourroshanfekr LU ; Vasquez, Juan C. and Guerrero, Josep M.
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- electricity demand forecasting, extreme gradient boosting, long short-term memory, transfer learning
- host publication
- 32nd International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, IWSSIP 2025 - Proceedings
- series title
- International Conference on Systems, Signals, and Image Processing
- publisher
- IEEE Computer Society
- conference name
- 32nd International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, IWSSIP 2025
- conference location
- Skopje, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
- conference dates
- 2025-06-24 - 2025-06-26
- external identifiers
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- scopus:105017433059
- ISSN
- 2157-8702
- 2157-8672
- ISBN
- 9798350392890
- DOI
- 10.1109/IWSSIP66997.2025.11151865
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2025 IEEE.
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- 4bba1d76-8d7b-45bb-b1a6-adbb7875f328
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- 2025-12-08 10:50:40
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abstract = {{<p>In Nordic countries, demand response (DR) programs are critical for enhancing energy flexibility and reducing peak electricity consumption in buildings and industry. Accurate short-term demand forecasting is essential to support these programs, especially in the context of cities with varying levels of data availability. This paper compares three different forecasting approaches for hourly electricity demand prediction in the Nordic region: a baseline Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model, a transfer learning (TL)-based LSTM model, and a tree-based Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model. We use Copenhagen, Denmark as a data-rich source city to pretrain an LSTM and fine-tune it on limited data from Reykjavik, Iceland simulating a low-data target environment. The results show that while XGBoost performs best with well-engineered features, TL offers a robust and scalable alternative in data-scarce scenarios, especially where traditional features may be limited or incomplete.</p>}},
author = {{Javidsharifi, Mahshid and Arabani, Hamoun Pourroshanfekr and Vasquez, Juan C. and Guerrero, Josep M.}},
booktitle = {{32nd International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, IWSSIP 2025 - Proceedings}},
isbn = {{9798350392890}},
issn = {{2157-8702}},
keywords = {{electricity demand forecasting; extreme gradient boosting; long short-term memory; transfer learning}},
language = {{eng}},
publisher = {{IEEE Computer Society}},
series = {{International Conference on Systems, Signals, and Image Processing}},
title = {{Transfer Learning for Electricity Demand Forecasting in Nordic Cities : A Case Study of Copenhagen and Reykjavik}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IWSSIP66997.2025.11151865}},
doi = {{10.1109/IWSSIP66997.2025.11151865}},
year = {{2025}},
}