Load growth analysis
Load growth analysis
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I am trying to study trends in load growth for our region over the past 10 years or so, to be able to predict future load growth. In forming a model, what data would be useful. i.e. I know there is a relationship between maximum demand and temperature, but what about other environmental effects like wind speed or rainfall. Has anyone found any correlations which could be useful?
RE: Load growth analysis
RE: Load growth analysis
RE: Load growth analysis
Once you get it you can try correlating power usage with all kinds of things - Like; population, school enrollment, car registration, degree days in a year, square footage of retail space in the area, employment, unemployment, average income, the dow jones average, runoff from the local river etc. Agood program will let you put the data in very quickly and test it for degree of correlation.
It's interesting to see what works. You may find things that correlate with power growth but don't have any causual link. Get a good statistics book or better take a good stat course.
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