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It is particularly important to establish a correct and reasonable gas daily load forecasting model to ensure the realization of forecasting function and the accuracy and reliability of calculation results. Most of the current prediction models are combined with the characteristics of gas data and prediction models, and the influencing factors are often considered less. In order to solve this problem, the basic concept of multiple weather parameter (MWP) was introduced, and the influence of factors such as the average temperature, solar radiation, cumulative temperature, wind power, and temperature change of the building foundation on the daily load of urban gas were analyzed. A multiple weather parameter\u2013daily load prediction (MWP-DLP) model based on System Thermal Days (STD) was established, and the genetic algorithm was used to solve the model. The daily gas load in a city was predicted, and the results were analyzed. The results show that the trend between the predicted value of gas daily load obtained by the MWP-DLP model and the actual value was basically consistent. The maximum relative error was 8.2%, and the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) was 2.68%. The feasibility of the MWP- DLP prediction model was verified, which has practical significance for gas companies to reasonably formulate and decide peak shaving schemes to reserve natural gas.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/a18060347","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,5]],"date-time":"2025-06-05T08:34:32Z","timestamp":1749112472000},"page":"347","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A Novel Model for Accurate Daily Urban Gas Load Prediction Using Genetic Algorithms"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Xi","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Natural Gas Gathering and Transmission Engineering Technology Research Institute, PetroChina Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company, Chengdu 610041, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Feng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Natural Gas Gathering and Transmission Engineering Technology Research Institute, PetroChina Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company, Chengdu 610041, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Li","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Natural Gas Gathering and Transmission Engineering Technology Research Institute, PetroChina Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company, Chengdu 610041, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Taiwu","family":"Xia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Natural Gas Gathering and Transmission Engineering Technology Research Institute, PetroChina Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company, Chengdu 610041, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Minhao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Natural Gas Gathering and Transmission Engineering Technology Research Institute, PetroChina Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company, Chengdu 610041, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gangping","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Natural Gas Gathering and Transmission Engineering Technology Research Institute, PetroChina Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company, Chengdu 610041, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Longyu","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Petroleum Engineering School, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Petroleum Engineering School, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"117623","DOI":"10.1016\/j.apenergy.2021.117623","article-title":"Day-ahead city natural gas load forecasting based on decomposition-fusion technique and diversified ensemble learning model","volume":"303","author":"Li","year":"2021","journal-title":"Appl. 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