Cloud Computing and Extreme Learning Machine for a Distributed Energy Consumption Forecasting in Equipment-Manufacturing Enterprises

Energy consumption forecasting is a kind of fundamental work of the energy management in equipment-manufacturing enterprises, and an important way to reduce energy consumption. Therefore, this paper proposes an intellectualized, short-term distributed energy consumption forecasting model for equipment-manufacturing enterprises based on cloud computing and extreme learning machine considering the practical enterprise situation of massive and high-dimension data. The analysis of the real energy consumption data provided by LB Enterprise was undertaken and corresponding calculating experiments were completed using a 32-node cloud computing cluster. The experimental results show that the energy consumption forecasting accuracy of the proposed model is higher than the traditional support vector regression and the generalized neural network algorithm. Furthermore, the proposed forecasting algorithm possesses excellent parallel performance, overcomes the shortcoming of a single computer’s insufficient computing power when facing massive and high-dimensional data without increasing the cost.