Short-run forecasts of electricity loads and peaks

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 161-174

  Ramanathan, Ramu ^a   Engle, Robert ^a   Granger, Clive W J ^a   Vahid Araghi, Farshid ^b   Brace, Casey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Puget Sound Power and Light Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative methods; Energy forecasting; Exponential smoothing; Forecasting competitions; Regression methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031168758     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2070(97)00015-0     Document Type: Article

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