%0 Journal Article %T Modelo n£¿o-linear de longo prazo para a pot¨ºncia requerida do sistema brasileiro de eletricidade %A Sellitto %A Miguel Afonso %A Ribeiro %A Jos¨¦ Luis Duarte %A Petrillo %A Fabiano %J Investiga£¿£¿o Operacional %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the formerly closed brazilian electrical energy market has been disclosed for investors and domestic consumers, which now have choices for theirs decisions concerning energy sales and purchasing, in long-term contracts. to establish minimal planning condition, suppliers need to forecast the required load in order to project and operate power plants. with the aid of a method that integrates non-linear regression and soft-system methodology, we depict a non-linear model for the gross total electric power requirement, counting on domestic activity, population and human developing index. a goodness-of-fit better then 96% was achieved. the final analysis focused on the strong contingency period occurred in brazil in 2001. %K electrical power %K multiple nonlinear regression %K multivariate data analysis %K ssm %K long-term load forecasting. %U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0874-51612007000100001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en