Forecast of Electrical Energy Consumption in Residential Sector of Morocco

Reliable energy supply is vitally important to meet the growing energy demand from different sectors and hence to sustain the socio-economic progress of Morocco. The purpose of this paper is to develop a model the electrical energy consumption of the residential sector that incorporate past trends. Two models were built; Multiple Linear Regression model (MLR) and Artificial Neural Network model (NN); each one had as inputs the independent variables that provide the most precise estimate of the dependent variable. Conclusions of this study indicate that neural network models produced more robust results.