Short-term Load Forecasting using Genetic Algorithm based Artificial Neural Network

Abstract

The electrical load Forecasting is considered one of the main and important points for the planning for the future in the electric power networks in both of transmission and distribution systems. In this paper, the genetic optimization algorithm (GA) with the artificial intelligent network (ANN) methods are  proposed to forecast the electrical load of  the building of Electrical Power Distribution office in the Iraq /Anbar Governorate.  Moreover, the optimization method of GA is presented to train the ANN weights using Matlab software with  simple programming code. Then, the proposed method is applied to the actual load and the results are compared with that obtained in traditional method such as ANN and regression trees (RG trees) methods. Hence, from the simulation results and the comparison, we can confirm that the proposed method is better than the traditional methods, and it achieved a good agreement with actual load and it provide a good total RMSE of 6% when compared with  other methods