Forecasting or Contemporaneous Estimation? A Leakage-Aware Industrial Energy Audit with Uncertainty Quantification
Short-term industrial energy forecasting supports load planning only when every predictor is available at forecast issuance. This study audits 15- and 60-minute forecasting with 35,040 real observations from a South Korean steel facility. We reconstruct a continuous 15-minute timeline, define a deployable 39-feature pr...