aakwadwo/electricity-demand-forecasting

Forecast electricity demand for Ghana & Nigeria using WDI data. # Electricity Demand Forecasting (Ghana & Nigeria) This project forecasts electricity demand for Ghana and Nigeria using World Bank WDI data. ## Methodology - Data sourced from **World Bank WDI** ("Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)"). - Cleaned dataset to extract Ghana and Nigeria demand across years. - Feature engineering: created lag features (1–5 years), rolling averages, and growth rates. - Model: Linear Regression with lagged features. - Achieved **Mean Squared Error (MSE) = 14.12** on test data. - Forecasts future electricity demand up to any input year. ## Forecasting Example ```python forecast("Ghana", 2030) forecast("Nigeria", 2030)