Patent Document ID: 20030050738
Application ID: 10142401
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for schedule-based load estimation in a system including a utility energy provider and a utility energy consumer, comprising the steps of: generating a near-term proposed schedule set containing at least one near-term proposed schedule for operation of power-consuming resources; monitoring energy consumption of said consumer for providing a set of historical consumption data; providing from priorly stored data a set of historical schedule data for said consumer; providing a set of historical unscheduled factors that affect said consumer's power consumption; providing a set of unscheduled factor predictions; and performing a correlation operation on said near-term proposed schedule set, said set of historical consumption data, said set of historical schedule data, said set of historical unscheduled factors, and said set of unscheduled factor predictions, for providing a respective near-term load estimate for each near-term proposed schedule in said near-term proposed schedule set.