Application of SAS in characteristic analysis of electric load and its forecasting

In order to effectively take advantage of SAS software's powerful function in data disposal and analysis for electric power system,this paper expatiates the application of SAS in characteristic analysis of electric load mainly from three aspects:prime com-ponent analysis,cluster analysis and multivariate regression.Some important functions of SAS,which are the revelation of relations and affecting rules between data and the availability of those conclusions for other works,are showed through some examples.It is concluded that SAS should be a wide application in electric power system and will be wider with the advent of electricity market.