A Novel Hybrid Method for Short-Term Power Load Forecasting

Table 4

The error of power load forecasting using different methods based on hourly observation.

	Hybrid method	LSSVM	BPNN	WEEMD-LSSVM	GA-LSSVM	EEMD-LSSVM
MAE (MW)	244.469	1313.7	1812.2	622.200	1083.4	909.020
MAPE (%)	1.56	8.44	11.81	4.05	7.12	6.08
RMSE (MW)	407.308	1552.5	2089.4	720.567	1220.7	1031.3