“…PLS is a straightforward dimensionality reduction technique that maps the variables in a new feature space with lower dimensions. The Variable Importance of load Patterns (VIP) for 32 features is shown in Regarding Figure 9, the most important features are hour, workday, temperature and lagged load (t − x) with x ∈ [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,11,12,13,17,18,19,20,21,22,23]. Thus, the selected threshold is VIP = 0.5.…”