A Novel Hybrid Method for Short-Term Power Load Forecasting

Table 5

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

	Hybrid method	LSSVM	BPNN	WEEMD-LSSVM	GA-LSSVM	EEMD-LSSVM
MAE (MW)	1441.263	13343.236	16027.205	5023.101	10623.505	10729.767
MAPE (%)	0.389	3.488	4.146	1.313	2.749	2.854
RMSE (MW)	1845.988	17460.604	22325.684	6561.656	14855.986	13914.859