Patent ID: 7089125

Claim:
A method of determining an energy load on a power distribution component, the method comprising: collecting meter data for a group of meters, wherein some of the meter data is in an hourly format and some of the meter data is in a monthly format; collecting weather data; correlating the meter data with the weather data to generate tuning equations, wherein each of the tuning equations is associated with at least one of the meters and indicates a weather sensitivity of the associated meter; normalizing the meter data in the hourly format to generate normalized hourly loadshapes that are independent of weather conditions and weekly variations; combining the tuning equations and the normalized hourly loadshapes to generate a set of model coefficients for each of the meters, wherein the set of model coefficients reflects weather conditions and weekly variations for one of the meters; and storing the model coefficients so that the model coefficients are retrievable to determine the power load on a power distribution component.