District Cooling can help cover the increasing demand for air-conditioning in a centralized end optimized manner. However, any optimized operation and extension of the cooling network should be based on a careful analysis of the demand. Of interest is not only the short-term demand but also the long-term trend. The most impactful parameters for the demand should also be known. In the current work, various short-term forecasting methods were first implemented and compared. The results were then used to conduct a thorough sensitivity Analysis. In this use case, the most accurate forecast was obtained using a Regression based model with selected Inputs and various pre- and postprocessing steps.
Finally, long-term models were constructed using the acquired knowledge, and the forecast models were implemented in the commercial software BoFiT.
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District Cooling can help cover the increasing demand for air-conditioning in a centralized end optimized manner. However, any optimized operation and extension of the cooling network should be based on a careful analysis of the demand. Of interest is not only the short-term demand but also the long-term trend. The most impactful parameters for the demand should also be known. In the current work, various short-term forecasting methods were first implemented and compared. The results were then u...
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