Abu-Shikhah, Nazih; Elkarmi, Fawwaz - In: Energy 36 (2011) 7, pp. 4259-4271
Medium-term load forecasting is an important stage in electric power system planning and operation. It is used in maintenance scheduling, and to plan for outages and major works in the power system. A new technique is proposed which uses hourly loads of successive years to predict hourly loads...