Novel approaches to the energy load unbalance forecasting in the Italian electricity market

In the present paper we study the statistical properties of the Italian daily electricity load market, by mean of different statistical methods, such, e.g., the exponential smoothing model, the ARMA-ARIMA model and the ARIMA-GARCH model, also providing results about the goodness of each of the proposed approaches. Moreover, we show how the aforementioned models behave if exogenous regressors, as the day of the week or the temperature, are additionally taken into account. Analysed methods are then exploited to perform the one-day ahead energy load prediction, where the main focus is on guessing the right sign of the energy load unbalance. © 2017, The Author(s).