Abstract

Reducing energy losses and increasing power grid efficiency need accurate prediction of power consumption accurate prediction of future energy consumption requires the use of time series data. To overcome the shortcomings of conventional techniques for forecasting energy consumption in India for the period from 2 January, 2019 to 23 May, 2020, we used an attention mechanism, which is still relatively new and not well known. In this paper, we propose a new approach for predicting energy consumption by combining local feature extraction with convolutional neural networks (CNNs), long short-term memory (LSTM) to capture long-term temporal dependencies, and attention mechanisms to deal with the issue of information loss brought on by extremely lengthy input time series data. After high-dimensional features are extracted from the input data using a one-dimensional CNN layer, temporal correlations within historical sequences are captured using an LSTM layer.  In order to optimize the weighting of the LSTM outputs, strengthen the impact of important information, and enhance the prediction model as a whole, an attention mechanism is finally implemented. This integration improves the model's ability to represent complex spatio-temporal patterns. The mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean square error (RMSE) are used to assess the performance of the proposed model. The results demonstrate that the CNN-LSTM-Attention model outperforms conventional hybrid CNN-LSTM and LSTM models, demonstrating superior performance across a range of prediction scenarios. By supporting more reliable grid management, proactive intervention methods, and predictive maintenance, these developments contribute to reducing load imbalances and energy waste in India. The Future developments could see the proposed model extended to other time series prediction domains.