RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Improved short-term load forecasting based on two-stage predictions with artificial neural networks in a microgrid environment A1 Hernández Callejo, Luis A1 Baladrón García, Carlos A1 Aguiar Pérez, Javier Manuel A1 Calavia, Lorena A1 Carro Martínez, Belén A1 Sánchez Esguevillas, Antonio Javier A1 Sanjuán, Javier A1 González, Álvaro A1 Lloret, Jaime K1 Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) K1 Short-term load forecasting K1 Microgrids K1 Multilayer perceptron K1 33 Ciencias Tecnológicas AB Short-Term Load Forecasting plays a significant role in energy generationplanning, and is specially gaining momentum in the emerging Smart Grids environment,which usually presents highly disaggregated scenarios where detailed real-time informationis available thanks to Communications and Information Technologies, as it happens forexample in the case of microgrids. This paper presents a two stage prediction model basedon an Artificial Neural Network in order to allow Short-Term Load Forecasting of thefollowing day in microgrid environment, which first estimates peak and valley values of thedemand curve of the day to be forecasted. Those, together with other variables, will make thesecond stage, forecast of the entire demand curve, more precise than a direct, single-stageforecast. The whole architecture of the model will be presented and the results comparedwith recent work on the same set of data, and on the same location, obtaining a MeanAbsolute Percentage Error of 1.62% against the original 2.47% of the single stage model. PB MDPI SN 1999-4907 YR 2013 FD 2013 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57639 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57639 LA eng NO Energies, 2013, vol. 6, n. 9, p. 4489-4507 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 08-ago-2024