Modelling and predicting electricity consumption using artificial neural networks

Nnamdi I. Nwulu, O. Phillips Agboola

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Abstract

Electricity has overtime become one of the most important forms of energy to man. One of the key concerns of the electricity industry for planning and strategic purposes is the quantity of electricity consumed. To this end it has become vital over the years for accurate and efficient mechanisms to model and predict electricity consumption patterns. This paper presents an efficient electricity consumption model for North Cyprus. The designed model is based on using a back propagation neural network. This supervised neural model has as its inputs key economic and seasonal indicators, which to a large extent influence every nation's electricity consumption including North Cyprus. The output of the system is total electricity consumed per year. The system was developed using economic and social indicators of the North Cyprus State Planning Organization (SPO) over the past 32 years, and the obtained experimental results indicate that neural networks can be effectively used for automatic modelling of electricity consumption, provided their input training and validation information are meaningful.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 11th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, EEEIC 2012 - Conference Proceedings
Pages1059-1063
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 11th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, EEEIC 2012 - Venice, Italy
Duration: 18 May 201225 May 2012

Publication series

Name2012 11th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, EEEIC 2012 - Conference Proceedings

Conference

Conference2012 11th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, EEEIC 2012
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVenice
Period18/05/1225/05/12

Keywords

  • Artificial Neural Networks
  • Back Propagation Algorithm
  • Electrical Power Consumption

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering

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