Load Research System WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD OF LOAD RESEARCH. Designed from the ground up and based on Microsoft Windows®, Itron’s Load Research System (LRS) puts the load research data you need at your fingertips. Load data is a key asset in determining how and when utility customers use energy. Across today’s utility, there is a growing need to improve processes, such as rate design, load forecasting, distribution system planning, customer relationship management, and energy efficiency programs. In retail markets, there is an ongoing need to develop load profiles to support market settlements processes. Load research is a key input to these processes. Traditional users are found in rates, marketing, customer service, and load forecasting departments, but more diverse needs for solid, actionable load research data are emerging in system planning, distribution system operations, demand side management, wholesale procurement and customer care. Itron’s Load Research System automates and streamlines the complex process of sampling and analyzing large quantities of load data. With its advanced graphical interface, users can design, track and maintain load research samples and estimate customer load profiles with exceptional accuracy and confide

> Examples of Data Views available in LRS Using LRS, utilities can: »» Understand usage patterns to meet customer needs and regulatory requirements »» Provide accurate class profiles to strengthen forecasting and analytic processes »» Optimize use of generation, transmission and distribution assets One year of hourly data »» Design programs to manage system load growth Load research data is interval data (daily, hourly, sub-hourly) for a statistical sample of customers. Sample data are used to estimate load profiles for customer segments. Load research information touches numerous business functions...

FUNCTIONALITY LRS is a modern tool used to develop efficient statistical samples and to estimate customer load profiles with the greatest possible accuracy and confidence. System components include: »» Sample Data Analysis •• Visual inspection, statistics reports •• Simple validation and manual editing •• Screen data and mark intervals for exclusion »» Sample Expansion •• Mean per unit and ratio methods •• Domains analysis for user-defined domains •• Estimate population averages and totals •• Flexible settings to control the method »» Analysis of Expansion Results •• Combine and compare sample...

LRS is designed to simplify load research processes, reduce data collection and analysis costs and improve analysis accuracy. The graphical user interface allows analysts to view input data and estimation results in a variety of powerful statistical views, providing improved capability to detect and resolve problems and increased confidence in the final results. The main benefits of the system are: » Reduced cost through the design and implementation of efficient samples • Optimize sample precision or minimize cost • Track precision and know where to put additional points » Improved performance...