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Title Forecasting Electricity and District Heating Consumption: A Case Study in Schools in Sweden
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Authors Shahid, ZK; Saguna, S; Åhlund, C
Title Forecasting Electricity and District Heating Consumption: A Case Study in Schools in Sweden
Year 2023
Published
DOI 10.1109/GreenTech56823.2023.10173792
Abstract The growing population and demand for new public buildings contribute to increased energy consumption and greenhouse emissions. In Sweden, the largest amount of energy is consumed in school buildings, i.e., where schools form the highest number of public properties (30 million m(2)). In total, schools consumed 4 222 GWh of district heating and about 3 GWh of electricity for heating and other purposes in 2020. These figures lead to the realization of the need to apply effective measures to meet the European Green Deal target for 2030. Accurately forecasting energy usage is important for all stakeholders to conduct economic analysis and optimize decision-making. It is equally important in maintenance operations to allocate resources and enable the staff and students to adjust their behaviours and address the issues in buildings where peak forecasts occur. This paper develops and evaluates a power and district heating consumption for a single day and multiple days forecasting using Multivariate Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) -Long-Short term memory (LSTM) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Autoencoders (AE), using daily real consumption data of six public schools provided by Skeleftea municipality in Sweden. The experimental results demonstrate that the hybrid model CNN-LSTM has achieved good accuracy compared to others, with RMSE and nRMSE error between 18%-25% and 5%-6% for electricity, respectively, and between 20%-30% RMSE and 5% nRMSE for district heating.
Author Keywords Forecasting consumption; time series analysis; electricity; district heating; LSTM; AE; CNN-LSTM; school buildings
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S)
EID WOS:001043037200033
WoS Category Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Energy & Fuels; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Research Area Science & Technology - Other Topics; Energy & Fuels; Engineering
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