Electricity load forecasting plays a key role in operation of power systems. Since the penetration of distributed
and renewable generation is increasingly growing in many countries, Short-Term Load Forecast
(STLF) of micro-grids is also becoming an important task. A precise STLF of the micro-grid can enhance
the management of its renewable and conventional resources and improve the economics of energy trade
with electricity markets. As a consequence of the highly non-smooth and volatile behavior of the load
time series in a micro-grid, its STLF is even a more complex process than that of a power system. For this
purpose, a new prediction method is proposed in this paper, in which a Self-Recurrent Wavelet Neural
Network (SRWNN) is applied as the forecast engine. Moreover, the Levenberg–Marquardt (LM) learning
algorithm is implemented and adapted to train the SRWNN. In order to demonstrate the efficiency
of the proposed method, it is examined on real-world hourly data of an educational building within a
micro-grid. Comparisons with other load prediction methods are provided.