As a result of the continuing privatization process within the energy sector,electricity load forecasting is a ritical tool for decision-making in the Industry. Reliable forecasts are now needed not only for developing strategies for business planning and short term operational scheduling, but also to define the spot market electricity price. The forecasting process is data-ntensive and interest has been driven to shorter and shorter intervals. Large investments are being made in modernizing and improving metering systems, so as to make more data available to the forecaster. However, the forecaster is still faced with irregular time-series. Gaps, missing values, spurious information or repeated values in the time-series can result from transmission errors or small failures in the recording process. These so- called irregularities have led to research that focused on either iterative processes,like the Kalman filter and the EM algorithm, or applications of the statistical literature on treatment of missing values and outliers. Nevertheless, these methods often result in large forecast errors when confronted with consecutive failures in the data. On the other hand, the minute to minute series have a large amount of points and so the one day ahead forecast horizont becomes very large to handling with the conventional methods. In this context, we propose an alternative to detect and replace values and present a methodology to perform the forecasting process by using of other information in the time-series that relate to the variability and seasonality, which are commonly encountered in electricity load-forecasting data. We illustrate the method and address the problem as part of a wider project that aims at the development of an automatic on line system for tracking the Brazilian Interlinked Electric Network Operation and performing short term load forecasting. The data were collected by ONS / ELETROBRAS - Brazil. We concentrate on 10 minutes data for the years 1997-1999 of Light Serviços de Eletricidade S.A. (Rio de Janeiro and its surroundings).