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.

SourceMethodModelCountryPeriod of timeIndependent variables

Ozturk et al. (2005)Genetic algorithm (GA)Exponential
Quadratic
Turkey1980–2001Gross national product (GDP)
Population
Import figure
Export figure

Ünler (2008)Particle swarm optimization (PSO)Linear
Quadratic
Turkey1979–2005GDP
Population
Import figure
Export figure

Toksari (2009)Ant colony optimization (ACO)Linear
Quadratic
Turkey1979–2006GDP
Population
Import figure
Export figure

Amjadi et al. (2010)PSOGALinear
Quadratic
Iran1980–2006GDP
Population
Number of electricity customers
Average price of electricity

Kıran et al. (2012)Artificial bee colony (ABC)
PSO
Linear
Quadratic
Turkey1990–2009GDP
Population
Import figure
Export figure

Yu et al. (2012)Hybridization of PSO and GALinear
Quadratic
Exponential
China1990–2009GDP
Population
Economic structure
Urbanization rate

Askarzadeh (2014)Different PSO variantsExponential QuadraticIran1982–2009GDP
Population
Import figure
Export figure

Toksari (2016)Hybridization of ACO and iterated local search (ILS)Linear
Quadratic
Turkey1990–2013GDP
Population
Import figure
Export figure