Forecasting Energy Demand Using Fuzzy Seasonal Time Series

Abstract

Demand side energy management has become an important issue for energy management. In order to support energy planning and policy decisions forecasting the future demand is very important. Thus, forecasting the future energy demand has gained attention of both academic and professional world. In this chapter, the previous researches on energy demand forecast are classified and fuzzy techniques are introduced. A fuzzy seasonal time series model that forecasts the energy demand is proposed and illustrated with a real world application.