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A real life case study is used for illustrating the defined steps and to discuss the results.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The presence of a de\u2010regulated environment reinforces the need of short\u2010term forecast algorithms (STLF). Actions like network management, load dispatch and network reconfiguration under quality of service constraints, require reliable next hour load forecasts. Methodological approaches based on regressive methods such as artificial neural networks are widely used in STLF, with satisfactory results. The construction of an \u201cefficient\u201d artificial neural networks goes through, among other factors, the construction of an \u201cefficient\u201d input vector (IV), in order to avoid over fitting problems and keeping the global simplicity of the model. The explanatory variables normally used, are grouped in two major classes, endogenous and exogenous. The endogenous variables are load values in past instants, and the exogenous variables are normally climatic. The main findings with this kind of vector presents satisfactory results compared to other proposals in the literature.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>This paper makes use of a procedural sequence for the pre\u2010processing phase that allows capturing some predominant relations among certain different sets of the available data, providing a more solid basis to decisions regarding the composition of the IV. To deal with load increasing during the winter period, the forecast average daily temperature was used in order to produce an indicator of the daily load average for the forecast day. 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