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Short-run load forecasting: proceedings of the fourth EPRI forecasting symposium

Conference ·
OSTI ID:5432301
The proceedings present 20 technical papers. Time-series analysis and econometric techniques relating sales and demand to economic variables are coming into widespread use in the utility industry. The first 5 papers discuss variations on these two techniques based on the experiences of utilities that have tested both. Some consider models employing combinations of the two. The attractiveness of such combinations is the major single conclusion of the symposium. A second group of 4 papers examines the techniques most successfully used for normalizing weather and load data. The remaining 11 papers address such topics as the identification of turning points in the economic cycle, forecasting when growth is low, results from small utilities, incorporating the effects of conservation, and applying forecasts to fuel-planning problems.
Research Organization:
Applied Forecasting and Analysis, Inc., Los Altos, CA (USA)
OSTI ID:
5432301
Report Number(s):
EPRI-EA-4080; CONF-821299-; ON: TI85920689
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English