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Equa_1 The Difference Between AR(1) and Lagged Dependent Terms Recently, a utilities regulator tried replicating a client’s regression model used for forecasting customer growth. The regulator...

survey The Latest Energy Trends Our third seminar of the year reveals the results of our annual benchmark survey. Survey participants receive a copy of the report with the findings. This is...

temp The Pitfalls and Pain of Aggregation Bias As forecasters, averaging is something that we do a lot. We like averaging because it helps us filter out much of the noise in our data so that we can...

iStock 155389199 The Story is in the Residuals In any field that involves heaps of data and information, details are everything. Load forecasting is no exception. If you’ve spent any amount of time...

iStock 1200326428 The Logit Function: A Tool for New Things With emerging technologies such as electric vehicles and photovoltaics, developing a forecast is challenging due to the lack of history....

Magical_Trinary The Magical Trinary Sometimes things don’t look like they’re supposed to look. Sometimes things don’t look like they’re supposed to look. Just walk into your child’s bedroom. At...

summit 2019 The Mile-High 2019 ISO Forecasting Summit They have a saying in Denver – “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes.” While that is clearly an exaggeration, it’s not too far off...

iStock 987986472 Toward an Optimal Combined Load Forecast for System Operations Deep penetration of non-grid connected renewable generation and storage, electric vehicle charging, smart load...

Load_Impact_Trends Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies on European and North American Electricity Consumption As previously discussed in the first of this blog series...

Theres More Than One Way to Round a Number There’s More Than One Way to Round a Number When we were in school, we all learned the general rule for rounding – if a significant digit is followed by a...

iStock 1211443622 Through August 2020: Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies on European and North American Electricity Consumption March through August 2020 As discussed...

iStock 1211443622 Through September 2020: Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies on European and North American Electricity Consumption As previously discussed in the...

iStock 1053001622 Timing is Everything When evaluating peak loads, load forecasters commonly focus on the severity of peak producing weather, considering meteorological factors such as temperature,...

iStock 1160827255 Upcoming Annual Energy Forecasting Webinars Itron continues to monitor and navigate through the coronavirus pandemic, keeping the safety and wellbeing of our employees, customers...

Itron 765x500 Using In-Line Transformation in the Report Object I’m developing a forecast that requires base, high, and low scenarios.  After building the base scenario, the high and low scenarios...

iStock 1211443622 Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies on European and North American Electricity Consumption March through December 2020 As previously discussed in the...

Itron 765x500 TVA Forecasting Specialist Positions Available One of our forecasting clients, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is hiring for two forecasting...

forecasting Upcoming Seminar: Budget Forecasting – A Practitioner’s Handbook Our second brown bag seminar of the year is entitled “Budget Forecasting – A Practitioner’s Handbook.” This Brown Bag...

data Using Neural Networks to Build Robust Hourly Models Our first brown bag seminar of the year is entitled, “Using Neural Networks to Build Robust Hourly Models.” Neural networks are flexible...

weather Using the Simulation Object Backward I’m using the Simulation Object in MetrixND to weather normalize historic sales. When configured, the object allows me to simulate the model replacing...