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IECE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence, 2025, Volume 2, Issue 1: 1-15

Free to Read | Research Article | 16 February 2025
1 Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University, 90291 Durham, NC 27708, United States
2 University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 48128, United States
3 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
4 Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States
5 New York University, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States
6 Northeastern University, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
* Corresponding Author: Ruxue Jiang, [email protected]
Received: 23 December 2024, Accepted: 10 February 2025, Published: 16 February 2025  
Abstract
With the increasing global focus on renewable energy and the growing proportion of renewable power in the energy mix, accurate forecasting of renewable power demand has become crucial. This study addresses this challenge by proposing a multimodal information fusion approach that integrates time series data and textual data to leverage complementary information from heterogeneous sources. We develop a hybrid predictive model combining CNN and Bi-GRU architectures. First, time series data (e.g., historical power generation) and textual data (e.g., policy documents) are preprocessed through normalization and tokenization. Next, CNNs extract spatial features from both data modalities, which are fused via concatenation. The fused features are then fed into a Bi-GRU network to capture temporal dependencies, ultimately forming a robust CNN-Bi-GRU model. Comparative experiments with ARIMA, standalone GRU, and EEMD-ARIMA (a hybrid model combining ensemble empirical mode decomposition with ARIMA) demonstrate the superiority of our approach in both short- and long-term forecasting tasks on the same dataset. This research offers a potential framework to enhance renewable power demand prediction, supporting the industry’s sustainable growth and practical applications.

Graphical Abstract
Short and Long-Term Renewable Electricity Demand Forecasting Based on CNN-Bi-GRU Model

Keywords
multimodal information fusion
renewable electricity demand forecasting
CNN
Bi-GRU
predictive performance

Funding
This work was supported without any funding.

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APA Style
Zhao, S., Xu, Z., Zhu, Z., Liang, X., Zhang, Z., & Jiang, R. (2025). Short and Long-Term Renewable Electricity Demand Forecasting Based on CNN-Bi-GRU Model. IECE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence, 2(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.62762/TETAI.2024.532253

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