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...

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...