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Intelligent Energy Forecasting Framework Using Deep Neural Networks for Renewable Power Systems

Jul 2026 · 2026 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information, Communication & Systems (ICETICS) · pp. 1-6 · 0 citations · 20 references

Abstract

Sound prediction of existence of future generation based on stochastic sources is a critical issue because of high nonlinearities, high transitions in the environment, and the nature of inherent uncertainty in observational information. The paper proposes an integrated architecture of deep learning, which is the Hierarchical Regime-Adaptive Probabilistic Network (HRAPN) that aims to overcome these constraints using an end-to-end learning framework. The solution selection boasts of hierarchical representation induction with a latent regime adaptation mechanism that modulates dynamically the internal model behavior in a non-stationary environment. Besides that, attention guided dependency synthesis module performs informative temporal context aggregation selectively to allow an efficient long horizon modeling without impaired performance. In contrast to the more traditional deterministic approaches, HRAPN uses probabilistic model of output in order to explicitly model predictive uncertainty, which enhances robustness and reliability of the estimated decisions. The system takes directly heterogeneous and multivariate data, without explicit features or domain pre-treatment. It is experimentally assessed that the presented method achieves higher results as compared to existing baselines in accuracy, stability, and uncertainty calibration in various forecast periods. The findings validate the performance of regime perceiving, hierarchical abstraction and probabilistic inference in the same learning process. The proposed HRAPN model offers a scaffoldable and adaptable evaluation of the dynamic generation modeling under both variable operating conditions with data. The suggested framework attains an overall accuracy of 96.6%, illustrating its robust prediction reliability and exceptional performance relative to current methodologies.

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