Short-Term Load Forecasting using an Ensemble of Artificial Neural Networks: Chaharmahal Bakhtiari Case

Short-term load forecasting is very important in electrical marketing. Load forecasting is dependent on climatic condition of every region and the previous structures of electrical consumption in that region; so we have accomplished this through employing climatic data (including temperature and pressure) and real load consumption of Chaharmahal Bakhtiari. We have evaluated our method using four machine learning algorithms: artificial neural networks (multilayer perceptron), ensemble of artificial neural networks, support vector machine and ensemble of support vector machine. Experimental results indicates that ensemble of artificial neural networks is superior to the others in the field of load consumption forecasting of Chaharmahal Bakhtiari.