[eBook Code] Advances in Electric Power and Energy Systems (eBook Code, 1st)

Preface and Acknowledgments vii

Contributors ix

1. Introduction 1
Mohamed E. El-Hawary

2. Univariate Methods for Short-Term Load Forecasting 17
James W. Taylor and Patrick E. McSharry

3. Application of theWeighted Nearest Neighbor Method to Power System Forecasting Problems 41
Antonio Gomez-Exposito, Alicia Troncoso, Jesus M. Riquelme-Santos, Catalina Gomez-Quiles, Jose L. Martynez-Ramos, and Jose C. Riquelme

4. Electricity Prices as a Stochastic Process 89
Yunhe Hou, Chen-Ching Liu, and Harold Salazar

5. Short-Term Forecasting of Electricity Prices Using Mixed Models 153
Carolina Garcya-Martos, Julio Rodryguez, and Marya Jesus Sanchez

6. Electricity Price Forecasting Using Neural Networks and Similar Days 215
Paras Mandal, Anurag K. Srivastava, Tomonobu Senjyu, and Michael Negnevitsky

7. Estimation of Post-Storm Restoration Times for Electric Power Distribution Systems 251
Rachel A. Davidson, Haibin Liu, and Tatiyana V. Apanasovich

8. A Nonparametric Approach for River Flow Forecasting Based on Autonomous Neural Network Models 285
Vitor Hugo Ferreira and Alexandre P. Alves da Silva

Index 297