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An important component of a comprehensive real-time control center for power systems is a short-term internal system load forecast. Short-term forecasts are necessary for on-line commitment, maintenance scheduling, security analysis, and on-line load flow solutions. It enables the economic dispatch to coordinate forecasted load changes with rate-of- response of generating units.
Irisarri et al. (1982) studied this question.