Understanding of energy consumption patterns is extremely important for optimization of resources and application of green trends. Traditionally, analyses were performed for large environments like regions and nations. However, with the advent of Smart Grids, the study of the behavior of smaller...

Short-Term Load Forecasting plays a significant role in energy generation planning, and is specially gaining momentum in the emerging Smart Grids environment, which usually presents highly disaggregated scenarios where detailed real-time information is available thanks to Communications and...

Thanks to the built in intelligence (deployment of new intelligent devices and sensors in places where historically they were not present), the <i>Smart Grid </i>and<i> Microgrid</i> paradigms are able to take advantage from aggregated load forecasting, which opens the door for the implementation of new...

The new paradigms and latest developments in the Electrical Grid are based on the introduction of distributed intelligence at several stages of its physical layer, giving birth to concepts such as <i>Smart Grids</i>, <i>Virtual Power Plants</i>, <i>microgrids</i>, <i>Smart Buildings</i> and <i>Smart Environments</i>. <i>Distributed...</i>