A hierarchical hybrid neural model in short-termload forecasting.

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel neural model to the problem of short-term load forecasting. The neural model is made up o f two self-organizing map nets one on top of the other |,and a single-layer perceptron. It has application into domains in which the context information given by former events plays aprimary role. The model was trained and assessed onload data extracted from a Brazilian electric utility. It was required to predict once every hour the electric load during the next six hours. The paper presents the results, and evaluates them.