An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to predict the electric load profile for an HVAC system ⁎ ⁎This work has been funded by the grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (ENERPRO DPI 2014-56364-C2-1-R). Yaser I. Alamin is a fellow of the MARHABA, an Erasmus Mundus Lot 3 project. José Domingo Álvarez is a fellow of the Spanish ‘Ramón y Cajal’ contract program, co-financed by the European Social Fund. Antonio Ruano acknowledges the support of FCT through IDMEC, under LAETA grant UID/EMS/50022/2013.