Adjustment of Discrete Load Changes in Feeder Databases for Improving Medium-Term Demand Forecasting

A discrete load change (DLC) event may be described as an abrupt change in feeder demand. These events are due to network reconfigurations, or the connection/disconnection of large consumers to the grid. This phenomenon affects the performance of load forecasting methods and, in general, it may worsen any planning or operational application that uses feeder demand records as input. This study prop...