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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...