Systems to Monitor, & Control the use of Energy and other Resources

NETA
Load Forecasting / Prediction

Large electricity users choosing to partake of NETA are required to accurately predict their energy requirements to remove the possibility of incurring high penalty charges.
ATLAS users can enhance their system by the addition of the NEW Load Prediction module specifically designed to enable a customer to forecast their total energy demand profile for as far ahead as they or their supplier requires.

A simple model building process creates the facility to predict future patterns and send these to the energy supplier. With the software presenting in real time how the 'actual' compares with the 'predicted' the user has an early indication of deviation from predicted load levels.

A user is able to view the whole or parts of the model. Access to parts of the model can be restricted by user permissions.

Load Prediction is a single user application and all predictions can be exported to a format that is read by most spreadsheet applications and sent to a consumer's energy supplier. The Load Prediction can be automatically moved into Microsoft Excel if required.

The concept of a model is central to the Load Prediction system. A model is made up of a number of cost centres which can be considered either as children or parents, e.g. Mill 2 is a parent whereas Motors is a child. Data is only entered for children as the parent is a calculated value by the software. There is no restriction to the complexity or depth of the model and users can be restricted to allocating consumption/loads for certain parts of the model only. Access to the Model Administration tool is restricted to those users with the relevant security permissions.

Our example below shows a conceptual model of a very simple factory. The model is not restrictive, however. There is no reason why a model could not represent a series of sites or even a specific process in a plant.

Energy consumers that are using Atlas software are able, for reporting purposes, to link Load Prediction to acquire the actual consumption of the various elements of the model. This enables a visual and mathematical calculation of the difference between forecast and actual consumption. A real time display will present, in line graph form, the predicted load for today along with the actual as it progresses and the variance, updating will take place after the end of each ½ hr period.

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