In this paper, we developed a new method to forecast 10minutes ahead wind speed based on Heteroscdastic Gaussian Process and investigated the impacts of this predicting on a mix-mode operated building. The forecasting result shows the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 9.2%. The indoor air temperature, infiltration air change rate and cooling energy consumption varied 25% in average compa...

T he environmental issues have received a lot of attention in recent years. Since environmental pollution is one of the issues that may damage the ability of future generations, it is important to examine the determinants of the environment quality. The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of urban and rural income inequality on natural gas consumption in Iran. To this...

abstract i n this paper we investigated total energy consumption and its individual forms (oil, natural gas, electricity, renewable energies and coal) relationship with real gross domestic product (gdp) in iran. we employed hsiao’s (1981) methodology and annual data which cover 1967-2010 for investigation. the empirical findings indicate there is bidirectional causality effect with real gdp and...

Energy demand in China has grown at an alarming rate over the past fifteen years. In 1995, the Chinese economy consumed 33.25 quadrillion Btus of energy, and by 2011, that number had more than tripled to 109.62 quadrillion Btus (EIA, 2013). China surpassed the U.S. in terms of greenhouse gas emissions in 2006 and in terms of total energy consumed in 2009. Though forecasts vary about how quickly...

In urban management, it is important to precisely forecast the short-term demand for necessary resources, including water, electric power, and gas. Although a variety of prediction models have been proposed in literature, the underlying defects and limitations confine the effectiveness and forecasting precision of these models. In this paper, the shortterm prediction problem is modeled as a non...

In the stock market, technical analysis is a useful method for predicting stock prices. Although, professional stock analysts and fund managers usually make subjective judgments, based on objective technical indicators, it is difficult for non-professionals to apply this forecasting technique because there are too many complex technical indicators to be considered. Moreover, two drawbacks have ...

Oil and natural gas from deep shale formations are transforming the United States economy and its energy outlook. Back in 2005, the US Energy Information Administration published projections of United States natural gas supply that stressed the need to develop an import infrastructure (1): by 2025, imports would account for almost one-third of United States consumption. When we compare those fo...