Forecasting Natural Gas Consumption of China Using a Novel Grey Model

Table 1

Summary of the empirical literature in Section 2.1.

Author(s)	Model	Countries	Forecasting horizon
Hubbert [3, 4]	Hubbert curves	US	Energy from fossil fuels; nuclear energy
Brown et al. [5]	Feed-forward network	US	Gas consumption
Bartels et al. [6]	Statistical analysis	Australia	Gas consumption
Lin and Wang [8]	Logistic and Gaussian curves	China	Natural gas supply
Shaikh and Ji [9]	Logistic modelling analysis	China	Natural gas consumption
Wadud et al.[10]	Dynamic econometric model	Bangladesh	Natural gas demand
Soldo et al.[11]	Neural networks	Croatia	Residential natural gas consumption
Ervural et al.[12]	GA-based ARMA	Turkey	Natural gas consumption
Gascón and Sánchez-Úbeda [13]	Linear additive models	Simulated data	Natural gas demand
Wei et al.[14]	Hybrid model	China	Daily natural gas consumption
Özmen et al. [15]	MARS; CMARS	Turkey	Natural gas consumption
Sen et al. [16]	Multiple regression	Turkey	Natural gas consumption
Chai et al. [17]	LMDI-STIRPAT-PLSR	China	Natural gas consumption