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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...

solar house Residential Solar From a Consumer’s Perspective I live in Southern California with a kid who runs the air conditioning like electricity is free and pretends that he lives in a frozen...

SVR Blog Ride that Vector Wave and You Might Get Epsilon Tubed Every now and then something comes along that is kind of different. Support Vector Regression (SVR) is one of those things. Every now...

forecastingsummit Remember the 2017 ISO Forecasting Summit This year’s 11th Annual ISO/RTO/TSO Forecasting Summit was held in San Antonio, Texas from May 16-18. Just like the defenders of the Alamo...

iStock 1070117618 1 Rooftop Solar and Short-Term Models – Advanced Methods Under a California Energy Commission (CEC) study, Itron evaluated alternative approaches to incorporating forecasts of...

solar panels roof Rooftop Solar PV and Smart Streetlights Survey Itron recently surveyed the load forecasting community concerning the possible impact of rooftop solar PV installations on utility...

Itron 765x500 Save the Date - 14th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting & Training Mark your calendars for 14th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting & Training.  We’ll be in Scottsdale, Arizona at the W...

four seasons Seasonal Sales? Not a Problem. There is a client who has a reporting issue problem. Let’s call him Ray. His annual sales are to be split into summer and winter sales, but on a...

Load_Impact_Trends Trends in Estimated Load Impacts of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies on European and North American Electricity Consumption The Itron Forecasting Team is leveraging publicly...

forecasting Short-term Load Forecasting: A Practitioner’s Handbook Our final brown bag seminar of the year—hosted on Tuesday, Dec. 4—is entitled “Short-term Load Forecasting: A Practitioner’s...

iStock 1297847906 Snow Your Enemy I have lived in New England my entire life. You may be unaware of this fact, but it snows here sometimes. Snow can be wonderful. As a child, I shoveled my fair...

download Take Our Annual Energy Survey Itron’s forecasting group recently launched its annual energy survey. As we have done in previous years, Itron uses this survey to collect information to...

chicago The 2017 Annual Energy Forecasting/EFG Meeting and ISO/RTO/TSO Summit The 15th Annual Energy Forecasting/EFG Meeting and Training will be in Chicago on April 26-28 with optional one-day...

iStock 172860691 Summing and Averaging 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 the...

Itron 765x500 The 2015 Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting is moving East! After 12 years on the West Coast, the Annual Energy Forecasting/EFG Meeting and Training is moving east! The 13th Annual...

Itron 765x500 The Buzz about Solar Forecasting Installed solar generation capacity is growing worldwide and this movement’s effect on load forecasts is significant. Energy service providers and...

cali The CEC Releases “Improving Short-term Load Forecasts by Incorporating Solar PV Generation” Interim Report The California Energy Commission’s (CEC) Energy Research and Development Division...

bxtab1 The BX Tab MetrixND provides several options for determining whether a variable is useful. Typically, a model builder reviews the variable coefficients, standard error, t-statistic and...

blurred colorful lights The Economy and Electric Sales Traditionally, the end of the year is a time to reflect and remember. So when the Federal Reserve raised interest rates in December as a vote...

Itron 765x500 The Fundamentals of Sales and Demand Forecasting Workshop, October 2014 Last month we held our Fundamentals of Sales and Demand Forecasting workshop in Boston. It was a great turn out...

the Future The Future of Operational Forecasting has Landed in Australia Recently, the Itron Forecasting Team was provided with the opportunity to develop a forecasting framework to support a new...

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...