“…These three items are separately modeled by the employed SVR-QGA model, and the final forecasting values would be computed as A + B − C. Therefore, this paper proposes an effective electricity consumption forecasting model, namely EMD-SVR-QGA model, with these three items to forecast the electricity consumption of a university dormitory, China. The forecasting results indicate that the proposed model outperforms other compared models.Mathematics 2019, 7, 1188 2 of 23 various statistical models that contain the ARIMA models [6][7][8], regression models [9][10][11], exponential smoothing models [12,13], Kalman filtering models [14,15], Bayesian estimation models [16,17], and so on. However, the inherent shortcomings of these statistical models are that they are only defined to deal with the linear relationships among the electricity consumption and other influenced factors mentioned above, eventually, only receiving unsatisfied forecasting results [18].Along with advanced nonlinear computing ability, the AI models have been mature diffusely explored to improve the forecasting accuracy of electricity consumption since the 1980s, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) [18][19][20][21][22], expert system models [23][24][25][26], and fuzzy inference methodologies [27][28][29][30].…”