**Abbreviations**

The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript:

EE Electrical Energy EAF Electric Arc Furnace BOF Basic Oxygen Furnace DRI Direct Reduced Iron DMS Demand Side Management MLR Multivariate Linear Regression PLS Partial Least Squares regression ANN Artificial Neural Network RF Random Forest KS Kolmogorov–Smirnov dCor Distance Correlation SHAP SHapley Additive Explanations TTT Tap-to-Tap Time TCB2 Time to Charging of Basket 2 HM Heavy Melting Scrap VB Variable Batch
