Short-term load prediction of electric power system is important to operation and design of power system. Except the operation curves of electric power system toad are analyzed, the predictive model based on a cascaded fuzzy neural network is proposed. The model is suitable for fuzzy prediction and control of complex system because the recognition method of fuzzy module parameters baaed on the theory of neural network is adopted. The selection for input variables and the learning algorithm are analyzed in detail. The test results reveal that the method possesses more advantages than neural net...