Plugging Attention into Power Grids: Towards Transparent Forecasting
Published in ECML PKDD 2025, Machine Learning for Sustainable Power Systems (ML4SPS) Workshop, 2025
We benchmark various Graph Neural Network architectures for electricity consumption forecasting in France and the UK, showing that simple models like GCN and APPNP perform well in complex settings. While attention-based models such as GAT offer valuable interpretability through dynamic spatial patterns, ensemble strategies further improve robustness under data heterogeneity.
Recommended citation: Campagne, E., Amara-Ouali, Y., Goude, Y., Kalogeratos, A. (2025). Plugging Attention into Power Grids: Towards Transparent Forecasting. In Proceedings of the Machine Learning for Sustainable Power Systems workshop at ECML PKDD 2025, Porto, Portugal. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.03690