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eBook How Utilities are Planning for Distributed Energy Resources eBook: How Utilities are Planning for Distributed Energy Resources With the rapid integration of renewables and distributed...
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AGA 2019 2 Enabling the Active Network for Natural Gas Continuing our blog series on natural gas safety, in this blog we will discuss the role of the Active Network in improving the delivery of...
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Itron 765x500 Heat Pumps: Gaining Ground in Colder Climates Air source heat pumps were once predominately found in the warmer southern regions of the U.S. where temperatures infrequently drop below...
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Smart City Expo Recap Blog Getting Ahead of Industry Trends at the 2022 Smart City Expo World Congress The 2022 Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) was nothing short of fantastic. The 2022 Smart...
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Hydrogen1 Getting Ready for the Future of Gas While greenhouse gas emissions come from various sources, a significant portion directly derives from the extensive use of fossil fuels for electricity...
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DTECH_DI Blog Harnessing the Power of Distributed Intelligence As utilities and cities continue to face challenges related to cybersecurity, outdated infrastructure, severe weather patterns and...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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