= Some of the history of a monthly sales and revenue survey, and the current status of that survey and others, are given as background to changes now being implemented. Sampling will now take place at the State level, instead of the national level; more complete use will be made of auxiliary information; work has been done to control cv's for several variables simultaneously; and a test origina...

The U.S. has more than 14 million miles of buried pipelines and utilities, many of which are in congested urban environments where several lines share the underground space. Errors in locating excavations for new installation or for repair/rehabilitation of existing utilities can result in significant costs, delays, loss of life, and damage to property (Sterling 2000). There is thus a clear nee...

Negotiated settlements are a form of regulation of public utilities that is alternative or complementary to the conventional process of litigation. Since the early 1960s they have been seen primarily as a means of coping with a regulatory backlog and as saving regulatory processing time. More recently legal scholars and practitioners suggest that settlements better serve the needs of the partie...

The electrical deregulated market increases the need for short-term load forecast algorithms in order to assists electrical utilities in activities such as planning , operating and controlling electric energy systems. Methodologies based on regression methods have been widely used with satisfactory results. However, this type of approach has some shortcomings. This paper proposes a shortterm lo...

The customer information system (CIS) is a vital component of the meter-to-cash (M2C) value chain for electric utilities and other industries that provide metered delivery of commodities such as water and natural gas. It is the glue that binds the consumption and metering process to payments, collections and other downstream processes that affect a company’s top line. Yet CIS transformations ca...

In Japan, the Great East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent tight power supply, introduction of a feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme, and power system reform have caused dramatic changes in Japan’s power systems. These changes led to acceleration in the introduction of solar power and other renewable energies, an increase in the number of the new power suppliers, and reinforcement of interconnections...

Long-term demand forecasting presents the first step in planning and developing future generation, transmission and distribution facilities. One of the primary tasks of an electric utility accurately predicts load demand requirements at all times, especially for long-term. Based on the outcome of such forecasts, utilities coordinate their resources to meet the forecasted demand using a least-co...

an outstanding problem in knowledge management—a problem that human-centered computing can perhaps address. In all complex sociotechnical workplaces, including those in government and industry, knowledge and skill have become widely recognized as increasingly important assets. They are important because expertise is a " must " for proficient performance in these domains. Furthermore, this impor...