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A comparison of prediction and forecasting artificial intelligence models to estimate the future energy demand in a district heating system

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  • Runge, Jason
  • Saloux, Etienne

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Forecasting the short-term future energy demand in buildings and districts is a vital component towards the optimization of energy use and consequently the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. This paper explores artificial intelligence approaches applied to estimate the future heating load in a district heating system. A distinction is made within thisd work between a prediction and forecasting based approach; a comparison is then accomplished by applying each method with prominent Machine Learning and Deep Learning based algorithms to estimate the future heating demand over 6 h and 24 h ahead. This analysis used available data from a Canadian district heating system in Quebec and actual weather forecasts obtained from Canadian meteorological services. All models within this work applied a grid search in order to calibrate their respective hyperparameters. Results of this work indicated that the prediction-based approach (with forecasted inputs) obtained a higher accuracy than the forecasting approach. All the machine learning models obtained good accuracy with errors not exceeding 16% CV(RMSE) and closer to 10% CV(RMSE) for the top performing models. Furthermore, the LSTM and XGBoost were consistently among the top performing algorithms and provided good performance over a variety of hyperparameters. The biggest difference between the two algorithms was the computational times; it was observed that the XGBoost was significantly faster to train.

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  • Runge, Jason & Saloux, Etienne, 2023. "A comparison of prediction and forecasting artificial intelligence models to estimate the future energy demand in a district heating system," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 269(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:269:y:2023:i:c:s0360544223000555
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2023.126661
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