Research Article
Electricity Demand Projection Using a Path-Coefficient Analysis and BAG-SA Approach: A Case Study of China
Table 1
A brief review of previous studies.
| Source | Method | Model | Country | Period of time | Independent variables |
| Ozturk et al. (2005) | Genetic algorithm (GA) | Exponential Quadratic | Turkey | 1980–2001 | Gross national product (GDP) Population Import figure Export figure |
| Ünler (2008) | Particle swarm optimization (PSO) | Linear Quadratic | Turkey | 1979–2005 | GDP Population Import figure Export figure |
| Toksari (2009) | Ant colony optimization (ACO) | Linear Quadratic | Turkey | 1979–2006 | GDP Population Import figure Export figure |
| Amjadi et al. (2010) | PSOGA | Linear Quadratic | Iran | 1980–2006 | GDP Population Number of electricity customers Average price of electricity |
| Kıran et al. (2012) | Artificial bee colony (ABC) PSO | Linear Quadratic | Turkey | 1990–2009 | GDP Population Import figure Export figure |
| Yu et al. (2012) | Hybridization of PSO and GA | Linear Quadratic Exponential | China | 1990–2009 | GDP Population Economic structure Urbanization rate |
| Askarzadeh (2014) | Different PSO variants | Exponential Quadratic | Iran | 1982–2009 | GDP Population Import figure Export figure |
| Toksari (2016) | Hybridization of ACO and iterated local search (ILS) | Linear Quadratic | Turkey | 1990–2013 | GDP Population Import figure Export figure |
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