Forecasting supply and demand with reliable facts and figures

Author

Nolan, Brian M.

Author_Institution

NERC, USA

Volume

8

Issue

4

fYear

1995

fDate

10/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

18

Lastpage

19

Abstract

One activity of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) is the annual compilation of electric utilities´ forecast relating to electricity supply and demand. The author describe how this data is available to the industry in a database and software package known as ES&D, which provides data in a concise and useful format to satisfy the needs of a wide variety of industry audiences. From the mid-1970s to 1993, ES&D was published as a printed report. Since 1994, it has been published only in electronic format, with each publication including the current forecast data set and the four most recent data sets

Keywords

electricity supply industry; information services; load forecasting; power consumption; software packages; spreadsheet programs; ES&D; NERC; North American Electric Reliability Council; database; electric utilities; electricity demand forecasting; electricity supply forecasting; electronic format; software package; Councils; Data mining; Databases; Demand forecasting; Fossil fuels; Nuclear power generation; Petroleum; Power supplies; Production; Supply and demand;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Applications in Power, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0895-0156

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/67.468294

Filename

468294