Council discusses upgrade to long-term load forecasting capabilities, reviews new market study & price forecasting
- August 22, 2024
- Peter Jensen
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While producing the 2021 Power Plan, Council power system analysts kept bumping up against limitations to their old computer models’ ability to do long-term load forecasting among other essential tasks in power planning. To address this issue, in 2023 staff contracted with Itron, a company offering energy forecasting software tools, to upgrade the Council’s long-term load forecasting.