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Itron 765x500 Free Itron Forecasting Brown Bag Seminars Itron is proud to continue hosting the popular hour-long internet seminars covering a range of forecasting topics. Itron is always at the...

Itron 765x500 Free Itron Forecasting Brown Bag Seminars For more than 10 years, Itron has conducted its popular hour-long internet brown bag seminars on a range of forecasting topics. Itron has...

Itron 765x500 Free Itron Forecasting Brown Bag Seminars Join us for our third brown bag of 2016 on Tuesday, Sept. 13 titled “2016 Forecast Accuracy Benchmarking Survey and Energy Trends,” where...

Data 002 HIRING: ERCOT Load Forecasting Senior Planning Analyst One of our forecasting clients, ERCOT, is looking for a Senior Planning Analyst preferably with at least 5 years of experience....

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iStock 1059202220 Holidays Are No Vacation for the Load Forecaster Summer has arrived. While your friends are frolicking at the beach, you are struggling in a darkened cubicle to ensure that the...

Itron 765x500 How Comverge is Using Machine Learning to Improve Demand Response Forecasts This blog was originally posted on Comverge.com. Itron acquired Comverge on June 1, 2017, and  all future...

iStock 1210719876 How to Account for COVID-19 in Your Load Forecast There are unprecedented load forecasting effects due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 26, Itron’s forecasting team will discuss...

iStock 1153657433 I Get by With a Little Help from My Friends, and Google It almost goes without saying that most utilities have seen a noticeable deviation in their electricity sales in 2020 due...

puzzle 654963_960_720 Ignore Missing Option The Sum function in MetrixND seems like a complex way to make adding difficult. In a MetrixND transformation, numbers are added by joining variables with...

EnergyForecasting_iStock 17 Impact of Climate Change on Long-Term Electricity Demand The next Itron Forecasting Brown Bag for 2020 will be hosted on Tuesday, June 16 and is entitled "Impact of...

IHaveThePower I Have the Power In econometrics generally and energy modeling specifically, variables in equations often include an exponent. In econometrics generally and energy modeling...

iStock 1206946412 If It Were Not for the Data, Everything Would Be Great I recently developed a set of 15-minute load forecast models when I noticed something odd in the pattern of the MAPEs (Mean...

Itron 765x500 Improving Net Load Renewable Portfolio Standard requirements and decreasing costs of photovoltaics (PV) are resulting in significant amounts of solar PV systems being installed in...

iStock 1124604407 Improving Efficiency and Accuracy with Forecasting in the Cloud In today’s increasingly dynamic energy market, it is important for utilities to have access to accurate and timely...

data2 Improving Financial Analysis with AMI Data Smart meter data is more granular and more timely than monthly billing data. Access to this data supports a paradigm shift in forecasting processes,...

Electric Vehicle_2 Integrating Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) into Long-term Circuit-level Forecasts Are you concerned about the rapid growth of newer distributed energy resources (DERs) such...

Itron 765x500 Itron Leads Industry in Energy Forecasting Meeting Highlights Issues and Solutions for ISOs and RTOs At the start of May, over 20 representatives from 11 different U.S. and Canadian...

San Diego In-Person Forecasting Training Workshops Are Back! Itron is excited to bring back two different in-person, hands-on training workshops this fall! Itron is excited to bring back two...

2021_Annual_Energy_Forecasting_Group_Meeting Itron's 2021 Annual Energy Forecasting Group Meeting Truth be told, I would rather be in New Orleans eating beignets and discussing issues with the best...

Forecasting_COVID_Impact Itron's 2021 Forecasting Benchmarking Survey & COVID-19 Impact COVID-19’s impact on energy consumption is not a secret.  Since the pandemic began, we’ve watched electric...

wind_solar Itron’s Integrated Energy Forecasting Framework In today’s marketplace, incorporating the multitude of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) can make producing an accurate energy demand...

iStock 1015887056 Itron’s Michael Rufo Receives IEPEC’s Lifetime Achievement Award Itron’s Michael Rufo, an executive consultant with the Consulting and Analysis group, was recently honored with...

iStock 1178270527 Itron’s New Forecasting YouTube Library Itron’s Forecasting group has conducted webinars on a variety of forecasting and load research-based topics for many years and continues to...

iStock 1211443622 January 2021: Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies on European and North American Electricity Consumption March 2020 through January 2021 As previously...

iStock 1043420678 It’s a DER World, We’re Just Living in It If you’re reading this and you’re a load forecaster like myself (or know a thing or two about load forecasting), then you are well aware...

graph It’s All the Same, Only the Names Will Change Last year, Itron was contracted by a small utility (about 11,000 customers) to construct a 10-year-ahead load forecast for capacity planning. I...

iStock 1198837281 Join Our Brown Bag: Community Choice Aggregation Load Forecasting The last Itron Forecasting Brown Bag of 2020 is on Tuesday, Dec. 8 and is entitled "Community Choice Aggregation...

iStock 1211443622 July 15 Update: Latest Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies on North American and European Electricity Consumption This data is for March through June...

iStock 1211443622 June 18 Update: Latest Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies This data is for March 15, 2020 – June 14, 2020. As previously discussed in the first blog...

iStock 1211443622 June 3 Update: Latest Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies This data is for March 15, 2020 – May 31, 2020 As previously discussed in the first of this...

seminar Leveraging a Waterfall Approach to Explain the Load Forecast Our first brown bag seminar of the year is entitled “Leveraging a Waterfall Approach to Explain the Load Forecast”. This session...

AI Load Forecasting Using Machine Learning: Does the Hype Meet Reality? It is easy to stub your toe on the voluminous literature available on machine learning when the question of how to improve...

Itron 765x500 Load Research in an AMI World: Why? How? And Results. Our final brown bag seminar of the year is entitled Load Research in an AMI World: Why? How? And Results. With market penetration...

sea nature sunny summer Looking Backward to Move Forward For most things in life, I look forward to go forward. I keep my eyes on the road ahead. I look before I leap. I aim at my target. But this...

Decision Tree Regressors Keep on Splitting with Decision Tree Regressors Who would have guessed that a tall stack of weak learners would work well for predicting daily energy use? Who would have...

iStock 1130931874 scaled Latest Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies As shelter-in-place policies are enacted to help reduce the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), the...

Itron 765x500 Lessons Learned from Itron’s 13th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting I just returned from Itron’s 13th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting & Training, which took place in Baltimore on...

solar and wind 1 Market Trends That Will Drive the Next Evolution of Operational Load Forecasting Models Grid operators schedule and dispatch generation resources to meet demand in as...

iStock 1143391583 May 20 Update: Latest Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies This data is for March 15, 2020 – May 17, 2020 As previously discussed in the first of this...

Miscellaneous_Alternatives Miscellaneous Alternatives In my previous blog “Demystifying Residential Miscellaneous Usage” I described how the miscellaneous end use is defined as a set of specific...

Apollo_13_passing_Moon e1517347513552 Multiplying Two Interval Series in MetrixLT “Help” was the desperate cry of a MetrixLT user after the close of the workday. “I need to multiply two hourly...

iStock 1211443622 March 2021: Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies on European and North American Electricity Consumption March 2020 through Mid-March 2021 As previously...

iStock 1143391583 May 6 Update: Latest Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies This data is for March 15, 2020 – May 2, 2020 As previously mentioned in my blog post on...

iStock 928909556 MetrixND, MetrixLT and Forecast Manager - Version 7.0 Releases We are excited to announce the release of three new software versions of our core forecasting suite – MetrixND,...

iStock 1171268236 scaled New Forecasting Brown Bag Webinars Itron’s Forecasting group has conducted webinars on a variety of forecasting and load research-based topics for many years and continues...

datacenter Forecasting New Technologies - When Nothing Else Works In a recent project, we were asked to help settle a question. Which forecast is reasonable: One forecasting average annual system...

iStock 1173258771 Observations on a Permanent Calendar: As Time Goes By The common civil calendar used around the world is the Gregorian Calendar, which was adopted in 1582 to replace the Julian...

Solar and Wind Generation New Forecasting Capabilities for Forecasting Solar and Wind Generation Itron recently announced that the latest version of MetrixIDR (version 7.2) includes two new...

2024 Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting NOLA Bound: Itron's Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting Registration is open for Itron's Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting and Training in New Orleans on March...

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

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

Itron 765x500 Peak Survey Itron’s forecasting group is currently conducting an Electric Peak Load Modeling Survey. The purpose of this survey is to gather information about methods used to forecast...

iStock 482104434 Real-time AMI Data Helps Utilities Anticipate Power Needs COVID-19 has changed the way people around the world live and work. As a result of shelter in place mandates, office...

iStock 1214889162 Reducing the Potential for Generation Redispatch The pan-European electricity market enables competitive wholesale and retail exchange of electricity while ensuring the security...

iStock 182203901 Odds and Sods Probabilities and odds express the same information in different ways. In science and economics, people tend to think in terms of probabilities, while in gambling,...

Permanent Daylight Saving Time Permanent Daylight Saving Time The U.S. Senate passed The Sunshine Protection Act by unanimous consent on Tuesday March 15, 2022. The focus of the act is to eliminate...

RegressionTree Regression Tree Methods Itron will continue with virtual forecasting events again this year. Itron will continue with virtual forecasting events again this year. This includes the...

Regression Regression, Regression, Regression For over 15 years, Itron’s forecasting group has been conducting free live Brown Bag webinars on a variety of forecasting and load research-based...

iStock 1181134074 scaled Residential Lighting Efficiency Really Does Make a Difference! It’s hard to believe that it’s been 4 years since we installed the solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on our...