Full Title: Guidance on Incorporating Building and Transportation Electrification into Long-Term Load Forecasts
Author(s): Sean Murphy, Margaret Pigman, and Natalie Mims Frick
Publisher(s): Berkeley Lab
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
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Description (excerpt):
The guide presents a framework for developing a long-term electricity load forecast
that accounts for the impacts of building and transportation electrification. The framework identifies key modeling decisions and provides examples from recent Berkeley
Lab technical assistance. In particular, the framework focuses on how to use publicly available end-use load profiles for eforecasting building and transportation electrification.
For each step in the framework, they provide:
• Guiding questions for users to answer and suggestions for users to follow.
• Examples from technical assistance Berkeley Lab provided to two municipal utilities,
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in California and Fort Collins Utilities in Colorado.
This framework does not represent the only way to develop load forecasts that account for the impacts of building and transportation electrification. It reflects lessons learned from Berkeley Lab’s technical assistance.