Forecasting

Forecasting Expertise, Free Brown Bags and More!

April 28, 2023

For more than five decades, Itron has helped energy companies understand and anticipate changes in energy demand; changes that drive both strategy and business operations. Itron combines industry-leading forecasting knowledge with innovative software solutions and services to deliver distinctive business intelligence and outcomes.  

Itron’s Forecasting group’s second free brown bag of the year is on May 2 at noon Pacific. Join Dr. J Stuart McMenamin, David Simons and Wyatt Workman on Regression Methods from A to Z where they will provide an overview of linear regression methods used in daily energy modeling.  

Itron has been conducting these informative webinars on a variety of forecasting and load research-based topics since 2006 and continues to host new webinars every year. Past webinars were all recorded and are available in a YouTube library. To watch the more recent recordings, including the first one this year on Electric Vehicle Load Shapes, you must be registered for the current year’s webinars. Read more details about all the 2023 webinars and register today

In addition to these webinars, Itron conducts a variety of forecasting workshops and meetings. New to forecasting? Register for the virtual Forecasting 101 workshop in June. There are only a few spots left. To learn more about Itron’s forecasting brown bag webinars, workshops and meetings, go to www.itron.com/forecastingworkhops. Need help with your forecast? Energy providers throughout the world look to Itron as their strategic partner to meet their energy forecasting needs. Learn more at www.itron.com/forecasting or contact us at forecasting@itron.com.

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.