abstract = "The short term load forecasting plays a critical role
in power system operation and economics. The accuracy
of short term load forecasting is very important since
it affects generation scheduling and electricity
prices, and hence an accurate short term load
forecasting method should be used. This paper proposes
a Genetic Algorithm optimised Radial Basis Function
network (GA-RBF) with a fuzzy corrector for the problem
of short term load forecasting. In order to demonstrate
this system capability, the system has been compared
with four well known techniques in the area of load
forecasting. These techniques are the multi-layer feed
forward neural network, the RBF network, the adaptive
neuro-fuzzy inference System and the genetic
programming. The data used in this study is a real data
of the Egyptian electrical network. The weather factors
represented in the minimum and the maximum daily
temperature have been included in this study. The
GA-RBF with the fuzzy corrector has successfully
forecast the future load with high accuracy compared to
that of the other load forecasting techniques included
in this study.",
notes = "Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo,
Waterloo, ON, Canada