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San Diego In-Person Forecasting Training Workshops Are Back! Itron is excited to bring back two different in-person, hands-on training workshops this fall! Itron is excited to bring back two...
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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...