A novel data-characteristic-driven modeling methodology for nuclear energy consumption forecasting

Ling Tang, Lean Yu () and Kaijian He

Applied Energy, 2014, vol. 128, issue C, 14 pages

Abstract: Due to the unique features of nuclear energy market, this paper tries to propose a novel data-characteristic-driven modeling methodology based on the principle of “data-characteristic-driven modeling”, aiming at formulating appropriate forecasting model closely in terms of sample data’s own data characteristics. In the novel data-characteristic-driven modeling methodology, two steps are mainly involved, i.e., data analysis and forecasting modeling. First, the sample data of nuclear energy consumption are thoroughly investigated in order to capture the main inner rules and hidden patterns driving the data dynamics, in terms of data characteristics. Second, the corresponding forecasting model is accordingly formulated and designed based on these data characteristics. For illustration and verification purposes, the proposed methodology is implemented to predict the nuclear energy consumption of USA and China. The empirical results demonstrate that the novel methodology with the principle of “data-characteristic-driven modeling” strikingly improves prediction performance, since the models elaborately built based on data characteristics statistically outperform all other benchmark models without consideration of data characteristics. This further confirms that the proposed methodology is a very promising tool in both analyzing and forecasting nuclear energy consumption.

Keywords: Data characteristics; Nuclear energy consumption; Time series forecasting; Data driven modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.04.021

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