4.1.The Available Data. Electricity consumption data used in this paper are collected every 30 min from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO),New SouthWales (NSW),Australia [41]. NSW with the largest population makes it Australia’smost populous state; thus, accurate electricity consumption forecasting is crucial for planning and operating a power system of the city’s sustainable development. The studied time range covers January 1st, 2013, to June 30th, 2013.
The data are sampled with a certain time interval of 30min, so there are 48 data for one day. Figure 2 shows the variation trend of electricity consumption throughout the studied time
range.