Improving and Automating kW Load Forecasting with SAS Viya for Electrical Grid System Planning

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Team Name	Booth & Associates
Track	Energy
Use Case	Improve and automate our kW load forecasting procedure for enhanced electrical grid system planning to better serve our clients and apply new, cutting-edge technologies. Goals: Automated outlier flagging in dashboard for engineering review Training a collection of smoothing, autoregressive, traditional ML, and deep learning models to simulate multiple scenarios and increase reliability of infrastructure planning Dashboard to visualize scenarios and change parameters  plus pushing newest forecasts to our engineering analysis software through an API
Technology	Python, SAS, SAS Viya
Region	US
Team lead	Zachary Horton
Team members	1. Zachary Horton 2. Stephanie Beauregard 3. Nathan Cooksey 4. Bill Jordan
Social media handles	www.booth-assoc.com
Is your team interested in participating in an interview?	Yes
Optional: Expand on your technology expertise	Booth & Associates is an Electric Utility Consulting Engineering firm with a deep, talented staff who recognizes the importance of an individual client’s needs.

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