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  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,415 Views
21 Pages

Energy Consumption Forecasting for the Digital-Twin Model of the Building

  • Joanna Henzel,
  • Łukasz Wróbel,
  • Marcin Fice and
  • Marek Sikora

13 June 2022

The aim of the paper is to propose a new approach to forecast the energy consumption for the next day using the unique data obtained from a digital twin model of a building. In the research, we tested which of the chosen forecasting methods and which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,571 Views
17 Pages

Forecasting Renewable Energy Consumption under Zero Assumptions

  • Jie Ma,
  • Amos Oppong,
  • Kingsley Nketia Acheampong and
  • Lucille Aba Abruquah

25 February 2018

Renewable energy, as an environmentally friendly and sustainable source of energy, is key to realizing the nationally determined contributions of the United States (US) to the December 2015 Paris agreement. Policymakers in the US rely on energy forec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,990 Views
19 Pages

An Improved Neural Network Algorithm for Energy Consumption Forecasting

  • Jing Bai,
  • Jiahui Wang,
  • Jin Ran,
  • Xingyuan Li and
  • Chuang Tu

27 October 2024

Accurate and efficient forecasting of energy consumption is a crucial prerequisite for effective energy planning and policymaking. The BP neural network has been widely used in forecasting, machine learning, and various other fields due to its nonlin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,322 Views
20 Pages

Forecasting of Electrical Energy Consumption in Slovakia

  • Michal Pavlicko,
  • Mária Vojteková and
  • Oľga Blažeková

12 February 2022

Prediction of electricity energy consumption plays a crucial role in the electric power industry. Accurate forecasting is essential for electricity supply policies. A characteristic feature of electrical energy is the need to ensure a constant balanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,566 Views
20 Pages

Decision Support Application for Energy Consumption Forecasting

  • Aria Jozi,
  • Tiago Pinto,
  • Isabel Praça and
  • Zita Vale

18 February 2019

Energy consumption forecasting is crucial in current and future power and energy systems. With the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, with high associated uncertainty due to the dependence on natural conditions (such as wind speed or...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,684 Views
27 Pages

A Review of Energy Consumption Forecasting in Smart Buildings: Methods, Input Variables, Forecasting Horizon and Metrics

  • Deyslen Mariano-Hernández,
  • Luis Hernández-Callejo,
  • Felix Santos García,
  • Oscar Duque-Perez and
  • Angel L. Zorita-Lamadrid

24 November 2020

Buildings are among the largest energy consumers in the world. As new technologies have been developed, great advances have been made in buildings, turning conventional buildings into smart buildings. These smart buildings have allowed for greater su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
8,652 Views
18 Pages

Energy Consumption Forecasting for University Sector Buildings

  • Khuram Pervez Amber,
  • Muhammad Waqar Aslam,
  • Anzar Mahmood,
  • Anila Kousar,
  • Muhammad Yamin Younis,
  • Bilal Akbar,
  • Ghulam Qadar Chaudhary and
  • Syed Kashif Hussain

12 October 2017

Reliable energy forecasting helps managers to prepare future budgets for their buildings. Therefore, a simple, easier, less time consuming and reliable forecasting model which could be used for different types of buildings is desired. In this paper,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
131 Citations
16,313 Views
33 Pages

Methods of Forecasting Electric Energy Consumption: A Literature Review

  • Roman V. Klyuev,
  • Irbek D. Morgoev,
  • Angelika D. Morgoeva,
  • Oksana A. Gavrina,
  • Nikita V. Martyushev,
  • Egor A. Efremenkov and
  • Qi Mengxu

25 November 2022

Balancing the production and consumption of electricity is an urgent task. Its implementation largely depends on the means and methods of planning electricity production. Forecasting is one of the planning tools since the availability of an accurate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
8,352 Views
15 Pages

Forecasting of Chinese Primary Energy Consumption in 2021 with GRU Artificial Neural Network

  • Bingchun Liu,
  • Chuanchuan Fu,
  • Arlene Bielefield and
  • Yan Quan Liu

21 September 2017

The forecasting of energy consumption in China is a key requirement for achieving national energy security and energy planning. In this study, multi-variable linear regression (MLR) and support vector regression (SVR) were utilized with a gated recur...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,107 Views
10 Pages

Energy Consumption Forecasting for Renewable Energy Communities: A Case Study of Loureiro, Portugal

  • Muhammad Akram,
  • Chiara Martone,
  • Ilenia Perugini and
  • Emmanuele Maria Petruzziello

Intensive energy consumption in the building sector remains one of the primary contributors to climate change and global warming. Within Renewable Energy Communities (RECs), improving energy management is essential for promoting sustainability and re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
6,573 Views
20 Pages

2 July 2022

In predicting energy consumption, classic econometric and statistical models are used to forecast energy consumption. These models may have limitations in an increasingly fast-changing energy market, which requires big data analysis of energy consump...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,967 Views
19 Pages

Evolutionary Hybrid System for Energy Consumption Forecasting for Smart Meters

  • Diogo M. F. Izidio,
  • Paulo S. G. de Mattos Neto,
  • Luciano Barbosa,
  • João F. L. de Oliveira,
  • Manoel Henrique da Nóbrega Marinho and
  • Guilherme Ferretti Rissi

24 March 2021

The usage of smart grids is growing steadily around the world. This technology has been proposed as a promising solution to enhance energy efficiency and improve consumption management in buildings. Such benefits are usually associated with the abili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,931 Views
26 Pages

24 December 2018

In the context of new industrialization, the energy problem being experienced by the manufacturing industry has aroused social concerns. This paper focuses on the energy use of 27 subindustries in China’s manufacturing industry and it develops...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,832 Views
13 Pages

28 September 2011

Monthly forecasting of electric energy consumption is important for planning the generation and distribution of power utilities. However, the features of this time series are so complex that directly modeling is difficult. Three kinds of relatively s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,204 Views
22 Pages

Generalised Regression Hypothesis Induction for Energy Consumption Forecasting

  • R. Rueda,
  • M. P. Cuéllar,
  • M. Molina-Solana,
  • Y. Guo and
  • M. C. Pegalajar

20 March 2019

This work addresses the problem of energy consumption time series forecasting. In our approach, a set of time series containing energy consumption data is used to train a single, parameterised prediction model that can be used to predict future value...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,029 Views
16 Pages

6 May 2022

Energy production and supply are important challenges for civilisation. Renewable energy sources present an increased share of the energy supply. Under these circumstances, small-scale grids operating in small areas as fully functioning energy system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,274 Views
18 Pages

Energy Consumption Forecasting for Smart Meters Using Extreme Learning Machine Ensemble

  • Paulo S. G. de Mattos Neto,
  • João F. L. de Oliveira,
  • Priscilla Bassetto,
  • Hugo Valadares Siqueira,
  • Luciano Barbosa,
  • Emilly Pereira Alves,
  • Manoel H. N. Marinho,
  • Guilherme Ferretti Rissi and
  • Fu Li

3 December 2021

The employment of smart meters for energy consumption monitoring is essential for planning and management of power generation systems. In this context, forecasting energy consumption is a valuable asset for decision making, since it can improve the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,828 Views
19 Pages

17 April 2020

To meet the rapid-growing demand for electricity in Kuwait, utility planners need to be informed on the energy consumption to implement energy efficiency measures to manage sustainable load growth and avoid the high costs of increasing generation cap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,398 Views
20 Pages

18 January 2020

Forecasting China’s clean energy consumption has great significance for China in making sustainably economic development strategies. Because the main factors affecting China’s clean energy consumption are economic scale and population siz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,596 Views
30 Pages

15 September 2021

This article is part of the concerns generated by the need to increase the consumption of renewable energy, so that in the European Union (EU) countries, its share in the final energy consumption, to reach 32% by 2030, increases. In the context in wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
999 Views
31 Pages

13 May 2025

Accurate energy consumption forecasting is essential for efficient power grid management, yet existing deep learning models struggle with the multi-scale nature of energy consumption patterns. Contemporary approaches like LSTM and GRU networks proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,671 Views
24 Pages

2 March 2020

Over the past decade, energy forecasting applications not only on the grid side of electric power systems but also on the customer side for load and demand prediction purposes have become ubiquitous after the advancements in the smart grid technologi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,782 Views
21 Pages

25 February 2022

Short-term building energy consumption forecasting is vital for energy conservation and emission reduction. However, it is challenging to achieve accurate short-term forecasting of building energy consumption due to its nonlinear and non-stationary c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
8,217 Views
16 Pages

10 September 2020

Predicting residential energy consumption is tantamount to forecasting a multivariate time series. A specific window for several sensor signals can induce various features extracted to forecast the energy consumption by using a prediction model. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
99 Citations
11,646 Views
23 Pages

A Comparative Study of Time Series Forecasting Methods for Short Term Electric Energy Consumption Prediction in Smart Buildings

  • Federico Divina,
  • Miguel García Torres,
  • Francisco A. Goméz Vela and
  • José Luis Vázquez Noguera

20 May 2019

Smart buildings are equipped with sensors that allow monitoring a range of building systems including heating and air conditioning, lighting and the general electric energy consumption. Thees data can then be stored and analyzed. The ability to use h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
4,554 Views
25 Pages

A Novel Accurate and Fast Converging Deep Learning-Based Model for Electrical Energy Consumption Forecasting in a Smart Grid

  • Ghulam Hafeez,
  • Khurram Saleem Alimgeer,
  • Zahid Wadud,
  • Zeeshan Shafiq,
  • Mohammad Usman Ali Khan,
  • Imran Khan,
  • Farrukh Aslam Khan and
  • Abdelouahid Derhab

3 May 2020

Energy consumption forecasting is of prime importance for the restructured environment of energy management in the electricity market. Accurate energy consumption forecasting is essential for efficient energy management in the smart grid (SG); howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
7,059 Views
17 Pages

Multiple Electric Energy Consumption Forecasting Using a Cluster-Based Strategy for Transfer Learning in Smart Building

  • Tuong Le,
  • Minh Thanh Vo,
  • Tung Kieu,
  • Eenjun Hwang,
  • Seungmin Rho and
  • Sung Wook Baik

7 May 2020

Electric energy consumption forecasting is an interesting, challenging, and important issue in energy management and equipment efficiency improvement. Existing approaches are predictive models that have the ability to predict for a specific profile,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,724 Views
21 Pages

12 May 2023

The forecasting of building energy consumption remains a challenging task because of the intricate management of the relevant parameters that can influence the performance of models. Due to the powerful capability of artificial intelligence (AI) in f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
592 Views
29 Pages

Deep Learning for Residential Electrical Energy Consumption Forecasting: A Hybrid Framework with Multiscale Temporal Analysis and Weather Integration

  • Bruno Knevitz Hammerschmitt,
  • Marcos Vinicio Haas Rambo,
  • Andre de Souza Leone,
  • Luciana Michelotto Iantorno,
  • Handy Borges Schiavon,
  • Dayanne Peretti Corrêa,
  • Paulo Lissa,
  • Marcus Keane and
  • Rodrigo Jardim Riella

8 November 2025

This paper presents an evaluation of the use of deep learning architectures for forecasting electrical energy consumption in residential environments. The main contribution of this study lies in the development and assessment of a hybrid forecasting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,226 Views
18 Pages

28 August 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent implementation of lockdown measures have significantly impacted global electricity consumption, necessitating accurate energy consumption forecasts for optimal energy generation and distribution during a pande...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,770 Views
19 Pages

Short-Term Firm-Level Energy-Consumption Forecasting for Energy-Intensive Manufacturing: A Comparison of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models

  • Andrea Maria N. C. Ribeiro,
  • Pedro Rafael X. do Carmo,
  • Iago Richard Rodrigues,
  • Djamel Sadok,
  • Theo Lynn and
  • Patricia Takako Endo

30 October 2020

To minimise environmental impact, to avoid regulatory penalties, and to improve competitiveness, energy-intensive manufacturing firms require accurate forecasts of their energy consumption so that precautionary and mitigation measures can be taken. D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,788 Views
21 Pages

Robust-mv-M-LSTM-CI: Robust Energy Consumption Forecasting in Commercial Buildings during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Tan Ngoc Dinh,
  • Gokul Sidarth Thirunavukkarasu,
  • Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian,
  • Saad Mekhilef and
  • Alex Stojcevski

5 August 2024

The digitalization of the global landscape of electricity consumption, combined with the impact of the pandemic and the implementation of lockdown measures, has required the development of a precise forecast of energy consumption to optimize the mana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
567 Views
20 Pages

15 November 2025

Energy consumption accounts for a significant proportion of China’s building operations, exhibiting notable regional variations influenced by geographic characteristics. Factors affecting building energy consumption during transitional seasons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,555 Views
24 Pages

26 August 2019

Forecasting energy demand is the basis for sustainable energy development. In recent years, the new discovery of East Africa’s energy has completely reversed the energy shortage, having turned the attention of the world to the East African regi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,057 Views
24 Pages

8 April 2019

The energy consumption pattern dominated by traditional fossil energy has led to global energy resource constraints and the deterioration of the ecological environment. These challenges have become a major issue all over the world. At present, the Ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,674 Views
25 Pages

Developing a Long Short-Term Memory-Based Model for Forecasting the Daily Energy Consumption of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Systems in Buildings

  • Luis Mendoza-Pittí,
  • Huriviades Calderón-Gómez,
  • José Manuel Gómez-Pulido,
  • Miguel Vargas-Lombardo,
  • José Luis Castillo-Sequera and
  • Clara Simon de Blas

22 July 2021

Forecasting the energy consumption of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems is important for the energy efficiency and sustainability of buildings. In fact, conventional models present limitations in these systems due to their complexity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,541 Views
20 Pages

26 April 2018

For social development, energy is a crucial material whose consumption affects the stable and sustained development of the natural environment and economy. Currently, China has become the largest energy consumer in the world. Therefore, establishing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,686 Views
14 Pages

25 December 2022

The long-term demand forecast for annual national electricity and energy consumption plays a vital role in future strategic planning, power system installation programming, energy investment planning, and next-generation unit construction. Three mach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
6,230 Views
15 Pages

18 September 2018

Carbon emissions and environmental protection issues have brought pressure from the international community during Chinese economic development. Recently, Chinese Government announced that carbon emissions per unit of GDP would fall by 60–65% c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
6,589 Views
22 Pages

10 May 2018

European Union Directive 2009/28/EC established that the share of renewable energy in the final energy consumption should reach a target of 20% by 2020 in European Union (EU) countries. This study analyses the tendency of this share using data for EU...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,130 Views
25 Pages

A Machine Learning-Based Electricity Consumption Forecast and Management System for Renewable Energy Communities

  • Miguel Matos,
  • João Almeida,
  • Pedro Gonçalves,
  • Fabiano Baldo,
  • Fernando José Braz and
  • Paulo C. Bartolomeu

28 January 2024

The energy sector is currently undergoing a significant shift, driven by the growing integration of renewable energy sources and the decentralization of electricity markets, which are now extending into local communities. This transformation highligh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,747 Views
22 Pages

17 October 2022

This work explores the process of predicting energy consumption in smart buildings based on the consumption of devices and appliances. Particularly, this work studies the process of data analysis and generation of prediction models of energy consumpt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,956 Views
16 Pages

A Hybrid Transformer–Mamba Model for Multivariate Metro Energy Consumption Forecasting

  • Liheng Long,
  • Zhiyao Chen,
  • Junqian Wu,
  • Qing Fu,
  • Zirui Zhang,
  • Fan Feng and
  • Ronghui Zhang

With the rapid growth of urban populations and the expansion of metro networks, accurate energy consumption prediction has become a critical task for optimizing metro operations and supporting low-carbon city development. Traditional statistical and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,451 Views
9 Pages

29 July 2019

Energy consumers may not know whether their next-hour forecasted load is either high or low based on the actual value predicted from their historical data. A conventional method of level prediction with a pattern recognition approach was performed by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,600 Views
17 Pages

11 March 2020

In many regions, the heat used for space heating is a basic item in the energy balance of a building and significantly affects its operating costs. The accuracy of the assessment of heat consumption in an existing building and the determination of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,748 Views
30 Pages

15 January 2025

The accumulation operation is the most fundamental method for processing data in grey models, playing a decisive role in the accuracy of model predictions. However, the traditional forward accumulation method does not adhere to the principle of prior...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,833 Views
10 Pages

This study applied ARIMA modeling to analyze the energy consumption patterns of laboratory equipment over one month, focusing on enhancing energy management in the laboratory. By explicitly examining AC and DC equipment, this study obtained detailed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,762 Views
15 Pages

Stride-TCN for Energy Consumption Forecasting and Its Optimization

  • Le Hoang Anh,
  • Gwang Hyun Yu,
  • Dang Thanh Vu,
  • Jin Sul Kim,
  • Jung Il Lee,
  • Jun Churl Yoon and
  • Jin Young Kim

20 September 2022

Forecasting, commonly used in econometrics, meteorology, or energy consumption prediction, is the field of study that deals with time series data to predict future trends. Former studies have revealed that both traditional statistical models and rece...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,990 Views
23 Pages

Adaptive Forecasting in Energy Consumption: A Bibliometric Analysis and Review

  • Manuel Jaramillo,
  • Wilson Pavón and
  • Lisbeth Jaramillo

11 January 2024

This paper addresses the challenges in forecasting electrical energy in the current era of renewable energy integration. It reviews advanced adaptive forecasting methodologies while also analyzing the evolution of research in this field through bibli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,561 Views
15 Pages

Forecasting Energy Consumption in the EU Residential Sector

  • Vincenzo Bianco,
  • Annalisa Marchitto,
  • Federico Scarpa and
  • Luca A. Tagliafico

The present paper aims to introduce a top down methodology for the forecasting of residential energy demand in four European countries, namely Germany, Italy, Spain, and Lithuania. The methodology employed to develop the estimation is based on econom...

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