Forecasting of electricity power consumption in AL - Qadisiya province by using time series models & Artificial neural networks models

Abstract

The time series analysis is considered of the important statistics topics which concerned with the study  phenomena behavior and interpret them at periods of time. Through a general description of time series and forming a suitable model for time series behavior interpretation for forecasting .

 The aim of research is to build a forecasting model to the electricity power consumption in AL - Qadisiya province at the period (2005 - 2012) by using  Box Jenkins model in time series  and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) model . The results showed superiority of artificial neural networks by using some error criterion.