Short-Term Power Load Forecasting Based on Self-Adapting PSO-BP Neural Network Model

To resolve the problem of short-term power load forecasting, we propose a self-adapting particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to optimize the error back propagation (BP) neural network model. The proposed model is called PSO-BP model which employs PSO to adjust control parameters of BP neural network. In order to verify the performance of PSO-BP, the practical datum of a city in China are selected in the experiments. Simulation results show that our approach outperforms simple BP neural network.