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iStock 1161898151 Dates and Serial Numbers: Might As Well Leap In Excel and MetrixND, dates are actually serial numbers. This is obvious in Excel when you format a cell containing a date as a...

uncertainty Developing Net Load Uncertainty Forecasts to Support System Operations Today, the deep penetration of renewable generation resources system operators are requiring new tools to place...

forecasting1 Developing the Peak Day Dataset Using MetrixLT I think of MetrixLT as a fancy load shape manipulator and calculator. While the software was originally designed to calibrate load shapes...

iStock 1198580200 Do Solar Panels Need to be Cleaned? It seems like my solar photovoltaic (PV) panel monitoring service, Enphase, started sending more emails recently. Or maybe because I recently...

DST Daylight Saving Time: The Bane of the Load Forecaster "Sunrise and sunset times vary from summer to winter because of earth’s tilt with respect to its orbit around the sun. This difference is...

forecasting Declining Residential Sales? In the past three months, I’ve received three questions, all the same, “Why are my residential sales down?” There are several reasons why a company may see...

iStock 968868708 1 scaled Demystifying Residential Miscellaneous Usage In the residential Statistically Adjusted End-Use (SAE) model framework, the miscellaneous end-use is the single largest...

iStock 519427336 Developing a Combined Operational Load Forecast With the deep penetration of non-grid connected renewable generation and storage, electric vehicle charging, smart load control and...

Itron 765x500 Energy Forecasting Accuracy Trends Free Brown Bag Seminar Interested in learning about the latest energy forecasting accuracy trends? Itron has been collecting information on industry...

Paige Forecasting Blog Estimated Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on California Water Consumption Previous blogs and memos looked at the estimated impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the consumption...

Electric Vehicle Data EVeryone Needs EV Data: Here's Where to Find It During our most recent Forecasting 101 workshop, one of the attendees expressed concerns about their data on electric vehicles...

iStock 1144382567 Energy Forecasting 101 Workshop New to energy forecasting? Itron can provide you with an introduction to the use of regression for forecasting applications, which is designed for...

chicago e1484002715126 Energy Forecasting Meeting - Call for Presentations Forecasters tell Itron that there is no greater value than meeting with their peers. Itron understands the importance of...

EV Forecasting Blog_F Fast EV Charging: Lessons Learned A recent trip to Palm Desert from San Diego, in my relatively new Nissan Leaf EV (her name is Wanda), gave me some new insights on EV driving...

Itron 765x500 Forecast Tests in MetrixND Out-of-sample tests are a useful tool for seeing how well a model performs with data it hasn’t seen before (i.e., data that weren’t used to estimate the...

EV_Brownbag Forecasting Expertise, Free Brown Bags and More! For more than five decades, Itron has helped energy companies understand and anticipate changes in energy demand; changes that drive...

Forecasting is Hard Forecasting is Hard – Especially for the Future Predicting behavior in the future is no easy task. Yet, we energy forecasters do this every day. The complexity of the problem...

Image C FREE Forecasting Brown Bag Webinar Itron continues to host its popular hour-long Internet seminars on a range of forecasting topics. We’re now in our 11th year!  Itron is always at the...

dew Free Forecasting Brown Bag Webinar Now in our 11th year of hosting Itron’s popular, free hour-long internet seminars on a range of forecasting topics, we take great pride in helping our...

Itron 765x500 Free Itron Forecasting Brown Bag Seminars Since 2005, Itron has conducted its popular hour-long Internet brown bag seminars on a range of forecasting topics. Itron is always at the...