Short-term forecast, which involves high frequency data, is essential for a reliable and efficient electricity sector operation, enabling an efficient power load allocation and indicating possible distortions in the coming periods (days, hours, or hour fractions). To ensure the operation efficiency, several approaches have been employed in order to forecast the short-term load. Among them, one can mention the hybrid models of Time Series, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks and Holt-Winters Method with multiple cycles, which is the main tool used today. The HPA (Hierarchical Profiling Approach) model decomposes the variability of time series data into three components: deterministic, stochastic and noise. The model is capable of modeling single, periodic and aperiodic observations, and at the same time function as a pre-whitening technique. This work aims to implement the HPA and to apply it in 15 in 15 minutes load data of a Brazil’s southeastern state, since the predictive ability of the HPA is still not known for the Brazilian series. The short-term forecasts estimated for the series considered are analyzed and provided a Theil-U Coefficient equal to 0.36 and a Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of 5.46%, which is smaller than the value given by the Naive Model (15.08%).