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Acknowledgements

This project extends research conducted as part of an MSc thesis at Imperial College London (Environmental Data Science & Machine Learning). Sincere thanks to mentors, collaborators, and supporters for their invaluable contributions and encouragement throughout this work.

Institutional support

  • Hitachi–Imperial Centre for Decarbonisation and Natural Climate Solutions
  • Imperial College London – Data Science Institute

Individual contributions

  • Dr Mirabelle Muûls, Dr Shefali Khanna, and Dr Gareth Collins — supervision, feedback, and guidance.
  • Brython Caley-Davies — assistance with data infrastructure centralisation and preprocessing.
  • Colleagues and reviewers who provided feedback on methods and results.

Resources and data

  • Data provided by TATA Power.
  • High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources provided by Imperial College London.

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