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Business management system and method for a deregulated electric power market with sharing of supply chain data

  • US 20030041037A1
  • Filed: 05/10/2002
  • Published: 02/27/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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11. A business management method for load estimation with interaction between an electrical energy supplier and a plurality of customer energy consumers, said method comprising the steps of:

  • grouping said plurality of customers into respective customer circles such that each circle comprises a number of customers engaged in similar activities;

    developing respective historical load profiles for each of said customer circles for a predetermined period past;

    inputting said respective load historical profiles to an aggregate load profile estimator;

    inputting near past load profiles to said aggregate load profile estimator, said near past being recent as compared with said predetermined period past;

    providing an aggregate load estimate by said aggregate load profile estimator utilizing said historical load profiles and said near past load profiles; and

    trading in said aggregate load estimate.

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