“…A plethora of prediction tools are currently employed to forecast electricity consumption in buildings. These tools encompass a spectrum of methodologies, each of which is designed to address a specific set of needs and to offer a unique set of advantages [1][2][3][4], e.g., machine learning algorithms [11,12], which include support vector machines (SVMs) [7,13,14], artificial neural networks (ANNs) [3,[15][16][17][18], decision trees [3], linear regression [6,15,19,20] and other statistical algorithms [8,12,[21][22][23].…”