Forecasting supply and demand with reliable facts and figures

One activity of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) is the annual compilation of electric utilities' forecast relating to electricity supply and demand. The author describe how this data is available to the industry in a database and software package known as ES&D, which provides data in a concise and useful format to satisfy the needs of a wide variety of industry audiences. From the mid-1970s to 1993, ES&D was published as a printed report. Since 1994, it has been published only in electronic format, with each publication including the current forecast data set and the four most recent data sets.<
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