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In order to improve power production efficiency, an integrated solution regarding the issue of electric power load forecasting was proposed in this study. The solution proposed was to, in combination with persistence and search algorithms, establish a new integrated ultra-short-term electric power load forecasting method based on the adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and back-propagation neural network (BPN), which can be applied in forecasting electric power load in Taiwan. The research methodology used in this paper was mainly to acquire and process the all-day electric power load data of Taiwan Power and execute preliminary forecasting values of the electric power load by applying ANFIS, BPN and persistence. The preliminary forecasting values of the electric power load obtained therefrom were called suboptimal solutions and finally the optimal weighted value was determined by applying a search algorithm through integrating the above three methods by weighting. In this paper, the optimal electric power load value was forecasted based on the weighted value obtained therefrom. It was proven through experimental results that the solution proposed in this paper can be used to accurately forecast electric power load, with a minimal error.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym11081063","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,21]],"date-time":"2019-08-21T11:19:06Z","timestamp":1566386346000},"page":"1063","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Forecasting for Ultra-Short-Term Electric Power Load Based on Integrated Artificial Neural Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4381-0727","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Horng-Lin","family":"Shieh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"St. John\u2019s University, 499, Sec. 4, Tam King Road, Tamsui District, New Taipei City 25135, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Fu-Hsien","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"St. John\u2019s University, 499, Sec. 4, Tam King Road, Tamsui District, New Taipei City 25135, Taiwan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1460","DOI":"10.1109\/SURV.2014.032014.00094","article-title":"A Survey on Electric Power Demand Forecasting: Future Trends in Smart Grids, Microgrids and Smart Buildings","volume":"16","author":"Luis","year":"2014","journal-title":"IEEE Commun. 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