Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Short-Term Load Forecasting 2019, Results and Future Perspectives.

The Special Issue is completed with two review articles: the first one [[12]] presents a classification of STLF state-of-the-art methods based on four categories, and the second one [[13]] compares criteria used to tune and assess STLF methods with estimated costs caused by the forecasting errors. The 11 research papers published in the Special Issue and in the book attempt to solve some of the STLF limitations, mainly by proposing new methods that improve the forecasting results with respect to those published in previous works. Consequently, STLF methods aimed at DR actions should explore new explanatory variables such as the electricity price forecasts for the next hours or DR event signals triggered by operators. As a result, adapting successful forecasting methods from those fields, the proposal of new ANN architectures and the development of new approaches (beyond current hybrid models) will be crucial to achieving significant progress in STLF. [Extracted from the article]