Forecasting

Energy Forecasting Accuracy Trends Free Brown Bag Seminar

February 10, 2016

Interested in learning about the latest energy forecasting accuracy trends? Itron has been collecting information on industry growth expectations and forecast accuracy for electricity and natural gas for the last several years. Join us for our first brown bag of the year on Thursday, Feb. 18 at noon where we’ll discuss the trends discovered.

Participation in our brown bag seminars is free, but prior registration is required. Each seminar lasts approximately one hour, allowing 45 minutes for the presentation and 15 minutes for questions. Seminars start at noon PST. If you can’t attend a seminar or missed one, don’t worry! Your registration ensures that a link to the recording will be sent to you automatically approximately one week after the seminar date.

The new 2016 survey is currently open for responses. A link to participate will be provided in your brown bag registration confirmation. All survey participants will receive a summary report and the preliminary results will be presented at the annual Energy Forecasting Meeting in May, and final results during our brown bag seminar on Sept. 13. Utility specific data will NOT be disclosed.

Register for this brown bags and others scheduled throughout the year or register for one of our upcoming forecasting workshops at www.itron.com/forecastingworkshops.

By Paige Schaefer


Sr Forecast Analyst


Paige Schaefer is a Product Marketing Manager in Itron’s Outcomes group for the strategy, planning and implementation of projects supporting marketing functions spanning electricity, water and gas business units. She interacts directly with sales, product and corporate marketing to identify new marketing opportunities, recommend actions and the coordination of targeted campaigns to increase brand awareness and market share where she works closely with the teams to develop content and strategies. In addition, she provides website support, event coordination and manages Itron’s Energy Forecasting Group (EFG), which supports end-use data development, the Statistical End-use Approach (SAE) and coordinates their annual meeting for discussing modeling and forecasting issues. Paige has a B.S. in Business Administration from San Diego State University with an emphasis in Marketing.