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iStock 1155116670 1 Annual Energy Forecasting Survey Itron’s forecasting group just launched their Annual Energy Survey. As we have done in previous years, we collect information to assess industry...

forecasters meeting Common Challenges at the Energy Forecasters Meeting Turning to her left, then right, Grace finds herself surrounded by strangers – men and women from across the United States;...

Itron 765x500 Comparison of Peak Forecasting Methods Brown Bag Seminar Recap On Tuesday, March 24, we held our first brown bag seminar of the year, “Comparison of Peak Forecasting Methods,” which...

sky clouds blue horizon Computing a Weighted Average Wind Speed and Wind Direction Across Multiple Weather Stations "Often when we are developing weather variables to support day-ahead power and...

forecasting3 Creating a Nonlinear Growth Variable I love straight lines. After all, the fastest route between any two points is a straight line. But in forecasting, going from point A to point B...

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...

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...