“…Although several different forecasting methods are used for prediction of electricity demand, none of them is superior in all cases. Some of these techniques used to forecast electricity demand of countries are the time series model (Saab et al, 2001;Sa'ad, 2009;Dilaver and Hunt, 2011;Boran, 2014;Efendi et al, 2014), artificial neural networks (ANNs) model (Hamzacebi and Kutay, 2004;Hamzacebi, 2007;Azadeh et al, 2008;Cunkas and Altun, 2010;Panklib et al, 2015) , regression and econometric model (Mohamed and Bodger, 2005;Al-Shobaki and Mohsen, 2008;Meng and Niu, 2011;Bildirici et al, 2012;Bianco et al, 2013), neuro-fuzyy model (Demirel et al, 2010;Chang et al, 2011), heuristic optimization method (El-Telbany and ElKarmi, 2008;Cunkas and Taskiran, 2011;Zhu et al, 2011), and support vector regression model (SVR) (De Felice et al, 2015;Jain et al, 2014;Kaytez et al, 2015).…”