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Frequent model updates are necessary to adapt to distribution shifts and avoid performance degradation. However, retraining regression models with lookback windows large enough to capture energy patterns is computationally expensive, as increasing the number of features leads to longer training times. To address this problem, we propose an approach that guarantees fast convergence through dimensionality reduction. Using a synthetic neighborhood dataset, we first validate three deep learning models\u2014an artificial neural network (ANN), a 1D convolutional neural network (1D-CNN), and a long short-term memory (LSTM) network. Then, in order to mitigate the long training time, we apply principal component analysis (PCA) and a variational autoencoder (VAE) for feature reduction. 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