由於台灣為狹長地形,各地氣候差異甚大,加以負載結構及特性不同,因此本論文擬以分區方式進行負載預測,取代以往整區的傳統作法,以提高預測結果之準確度。此外,由於台灣為亞熱帶海洋型氣候,全年炎熱潮溼的日子佔有相當比例,因此本文首例採用酷熱指數(Heat Index, HI)為負載預測之參數,以期更進一步提高某些時段之預測準確度。前述負載預測均採用類神經網路方式予以實現,並引用台電公司負載資料和氣象局氣溫及溼度紀錄予以模擬計算,其結果證實確為可行。
Because Taiwan is a longitudinal island resulting in the different climate and load characteristics in the different areas, this paper performs multi-region load forecasting to replace the tradition method which treats the whole system as one region to improve the accuracy. Meanwhile, due to the sub-tropic climate in Taiwan, the weather is hot and humid in most of the days of a year. For this reason, this paper proposes to use Heat Index (HI) as a parameter for load forecasting in order to improve the accuracy furthermore in some specific periods. The foregoing description of the load forecasting applies artificial neural networks (ANN) to implement. Based on the load and the weather factor data recorded by Taiwan Power Company and Central Weather Bureau, the results justify that the short-term multi-region load forecasting with parameter of HI is feasible.