First Announcement:
Domestic Electric Loads:
Consumption, Demand and Profiles
A seminar presenting new information about SA
domestic customer load behaviour.
Eskom and some Municipalities have been co-operating via the NRS 034 Domestic
Load Research Project in collecting loading data of domestic customers for the last 18
years.
All this data is in a database linked to tariff and demographic, climatic and spatial
information. The load data has been analysed and converted into user-friendly
formats for users of load data. The analysis will be presented at the seminar and
made available to attendees. (Registration for CPD points pending.)
Date: 12th November 2014
Venue: John Maree Auditorium, Eskom Academy of Learning, Midrand.
Content of seminar
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Domestic load profiles for different categories of customers.
Domestic load profiles for LSM categories.
Domestic load profiles for different regions.
Background of the methodology followed to compile the information.
Peak demand and load profile estimation tools.
Elasticity of electricity consumption.
Municipal application of load profiles.
Research in this area.
Who will benefit from the seminar?
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Distribution planners
Electrification designers, consultants and project engineers
Network designers.
Generation scheduling management, short and long-term.
Demand Side Management practitioners
Sales management and revenue protection.
Energy planners and forecasters.
Tariff designers.
Bookings & information: Buhle Dlamini
EMAIL: DlaminBu@eskom.co.za
Fee: R350 per day.
First Announcement:
BIG DATA for Electricity Forecasting:
Concepts, Techniques and Demonstrations
A seminar which will introduce Energy Planners and
Forecasters to the use of BIG DATA in planning and
forecasting environments.
Planners and Forecasters are under ever increasing pressure to deal with a more
uncertain future, with larger and larger data sets having to be processed.
Traditionally data sets are highly structured, but the growing trend is to mine value from
unstructured data. While doing analysis, modelling and forecasting, it is imperative to
access unstructured data (news articles and the like) from the core component of Market
Intelligence, combined with time series, spatial and other data (e.g. traditional data
warehouse) to give more rich intelligence. Eskom RT&D is offering you the opportunity to
get up to speed with these exciting developments. (Registration for CPD points pending.)
Date: 13th November 2014
Venue: John Maree Auditorium, Eskom Academy of Learning, Midrand.
Content of seminar
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What is BIG DATA
Load and demand forecast processes and the role of BIG DATA
The Eskom Load Studies Data Store Data warehouse
Collecting and linking of time series data
Data extraction and usage of profile data from customer level
Market Intelligence concepts and how to use it to enhance forecasting and planning
Spatial views and the allocation of articles to geographic places and networks
Sentiment analysis and the use of it in forecasting
Who will benefit from the seminar?
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Utility-Town Planners
Distribution and Transmission network planners
Municipal engineers
Tariff designers
DSM practitioners
Sales and Revenue forecasters
Bookings & information: Buhle Dlamini
EMAIL: DlaminBu@eskom.co.za
Fee: R350 per day.