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Therefore, energy planners use various methods and technologies to support the sustainable expansion of power systems, such as electricity demand forecasting models, stochastic optimization, robust optimization, and simulation. Electricity forecasting plays a vital role in supporting the reliable transitioning of power systems. This paper deals with short-term load forecasting (STLF), which has become an active area of research over the last few years, with a handful of studies. STLF deals with predicting demand one hour to 24 h in advance. We extensively experimented with several methodologies from machine learning and a complex case study in Panama. Deep learning is a more advanced learning paradigm in the machine learning field that continues to have significant breakthroughs in domain areas such as electricity forecasting, object detection, speech recognition, etc. We identified that the main predictors of electricity demand in the short term: the previous week\u2019s load, the previous day\u2019s load, and temperature. We found that the deep learning regression model achieved the best performance, which yielded an R squared (R2) of 0.93 and a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 2.9%, while the AdaBoost model obtained the worst performance with an R2 of 0.75 and MAPE of 5.70%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/en15218079","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,31]],"date-time":"2022-10-31T23:26:32Z","timestamp":1667258792000},"page":"8079","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":114,"title":["Machine Learning for Short-Term Load Forecasting in Smart Grids"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1471-9609","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bibi","family":"Ibrahim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Industrial Engineering & Management Systems Department, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6833-8612","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luis","family":"Rabelo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Industrial Engineering & Management Systems Department, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8128-5356","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Edgar","family":"Gutierrez-Franco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Transportation and logistics CTL, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5871-9390","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nicolas","family":"Clavijo-Buritica","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"},{"name":"Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science\u2014INESCTEC, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Kabalci, E., and Kabalci, Y. 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