The 2012 GEFcom competition was a great success with several new innovative forecasting methods introduced. These have been published in the IJF as follows: Hong, Pinson and Fan. Global Energy Forecasting Competition 2012 Charleton and Singleton. A refined parametric model for short term load forecasting Lloyd. GEFCom2012 hierarchical load forecasting: Gradient boosting machines and Gaussian processes Nedelec, Cugliari and Goude: GEFCom2012: Electric load forecasting and backcasting with semi-parametric …