Abstract:In order to accurately forecast power load and improve the flexibility and accuracy of power system regulation and scheduling, a short term load forecasting method based on combined model of auto regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and long short term memory (LSTM) neural network is proposed to avoid that a single prediction model may be difficult to meet the prediction accuracy requirement. Firstly, the two single models of ARIMA and LSTM are used to forecast the short term load, and then the hybrid particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is used to optimize the weight of combined model. Finally, the forecasting results of the single model are combined with the optimal weight to obtain the final forecasting result. The verification results show that the proposed combined model can accurately forecast the short term load, and its forecasting accuracy is better than that of single models of ARIMA, LSTM and back propagation neural network (BPNN), which has certain engineering application value.