Electricity forecasting plays an important role in the operation of electrical power systems. Many models have been developed to obtain accurate forecasting results, but most of them focus more on a single forecasting indicator, such as short-term load forecasting (STLF), short-term wind speed forecasting (STWSF) or short-term electricity price forecasting (STEPF). In this paper a new hybrid model based on the singular spectrum analysis (SSA) and modified wavelet neural network (WNN) is proposed for all the short-term load forecasting, short-term wind speed forecasting and short-term electricity price forecasting. In this model, a new improved cuckoo search (CS) algorithm is proposed to optimize the initial weights and the parameters of dilation and translation in WNN. Case studies of half-hourly electrical load data, 10 min -ahead wind speed data and half-hourly electricity price data are applied as illustrative examples to evaluate the proposed hybrid model, respectively. Experiments show that the hybrid model resulted in 46.4235%, 31.6268% and 25.8776% reduction in the mean absolute percentage error compared to the comparison models in short-term load forecasting, short-term wind speed forecasting and shortterm electricity price forecasting, respectively. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.