Electrical Load Forecasting in Power Distribution Network by Using Artificial Neural Network

Today, one of most important concerns in electrical power markets and distribution network is supplying the customer demands. In order to manage the market it is necessary to forecast the usage of electrical power in distribution network. The pattern of electrical power usage depends on many different parameters such as the week days, seasons, weather condition and etc. Today, researchers by using an artificial intelligence based on the natural intelligence are trying to forecast the costumers’ usage of electrical power. In this Paper it is tried to forecast the electrical power usage according to weather data by using artificial neural network in Bushehr distribution electrical power network and also is tried to find out the pattern of electrical power usage with the dataset which is prepared by real data. The method which has been used here is useful in all kind of power forecasting such as short term, middle term and long term. It can be helpful to manage the distributed generators production schedule and also correction of electrical power usage.