The adaptation of energy production to demand has been traditionally very important for utilities in order to optimize resource consumption. This is especially true also in microgrids where many intelligent elements have to adapt their behaviour depending on the future generation and consumption...

Electricity is indispensable and of strategic importance to national economies. Consequently, electric utilities make an effort to balance power generation and demand in order to offer a good service at a competitive price. For this purpose, these utilities need electric load forecasts to be as...

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>