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Webinar: Large Load Forecasting Practices
December 17 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Featured Speakers: John Wilson, Vice President, Grid Strategies and Sophie Meyer, Director of Power Systems, Grid Strategies
About the Webinar: Electricity load growth in the United States is forecast to grow at a rate of 3-5% per year over the next five years. Forecasts indicate that data centers are driving the largest share of this growth. But are large load forecasting practices accurate and useful for transmission and power supply planning? This webinar will review the Large Load Task Force’s first published report, on large load forecasting practices. This report includes a major new survey of the large load forecasting practices in use across dozens of utilities, regions, and other load forecasting authorities in North America. We will also discuss options for load forecasts to improve forecast accuracy with available data as well as suggesting how new information resources and forecasting practices could be developed.
About the Speakers: John D. Wilson is Vice President at Grid Strategies. John specializes in planning, rate, and other utility regulation issues, often related to decarbonization. John is the lead author of three reports which present a national overview of trends in load growth and challenges to forecasting and responding to those trends. The 2023 report was titled The Era of Flat Power Demand is Over and a new report will be published in early November, 2025. Other topics John has worked on include all-source procurement, which was the topic of a 2020 report, Making the Most of the Power Plant Market: Best Practices for All-Source Electric Generation Procurement, which he co-authored in 2020 with former Colorado PUC Chairman Ron Lehr and two others. With 18 years of experience in utility regulation, John consults for consumer advocates, state commissions, trade associations, and advocacy organizations.
Sophie Meyer is the Director of Power Systems at Grid Strategies. She specializes in power system planning topics, including load growth forecasting methodologies, and provides expertise and analysis across a range of utility regulation issues. Before joining Grid Strategies, Sophie worked for Form Energy, a long-duration energy storage company, as their Policy Advisor for the U.S. West, and on interconnection, reliability, and smart grid issues for the California Public Utilities Commission.
Moderator: Trieu Mai, Visiting Fellow, ESIG
Registration Cost: FREE
Q&A Session: We will be using the Slido platform for Q&A. Please submit your questions and follow along during the event at this link.
