The teachers/practitioners corner comparative analysis of load forecasting techniques at a southern utility

The prime directive of any regulated electric utility is to provide adequate and reliable electricity supplies to the consuming public at reasonable cost. This requires the continual addition of new generating plants which is based on a long term forecast of energy and peak demand. This study documents the forecasting process used at a southern utility and compares the accuracy of their models to that produced using Holt's exponential smoothing and generalized adoptive filtering.