Guest Editorial: Special Section on Analytics for Energy Forecasting with Applications to Smart Grid

This special section aims to bring together the state-of-the-art analytics, technologies and best practices in the smart grid era. Through a careful peer review process, 15 papers representing diverse topics on analysis and forecasting of load, price, wind power, demand response and electric vehicles are included in this special section. Based on the various aspects of contributions, these papers are categorized into five groups: Global Energy Forecasting Competition (GEFCom2012); Load Forecasting and analysis with High Granular Data; Probabilistic Energy Forecasting; Forecasting and Analysis of Emerging Subjects; and Novel Methods for Wind Power Forecasting.