Patent Document ID: 10043224
Application ID: 13931583
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform acts comprising: importing data from a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system associated with an electrical grid; validating the data using a ramp rate filter test and a load level filter test; smoothing the data using an augmented Savitzky-Golay filter; correcting the data for time periods of upward and downward bias introduced by the smoothing of the data by using lift factors selected based on a time of day, wherein different lift factors are computed for each day of the week and the lift factors are related according to: 
 L t Lift SG =L t RHS SG ×Lift t wherein: (L t Lift SG ) is based at least in part on the augmented Savitzky-Golay filter; (L t RHS SG ) is based at least in part on a right-hand-side constrained Savitzky-Golay smoothing filter; and (Lift t ) is a factor based at least in part on time period (t); generating a near-term forecast, a ramp rate forecast and a short-term forecast; passing the data to one or more of the near-term forecast, the ramp rate forecast or the short-term forecast; combining the near-term forecast and the ramp rate forecast to create a stitched forecast; blending the stitched forecast and the short-term forecast to produce a unified forecast; and regulating a spinning reserve of the electrical grid, wherein the regulating is based at least in part on the unified forecast, and wherein regulating the spinning reserve comprises at least one of increasing power that is available from one or more generators that are providing power to the electrical grid, or decreasing power that is available from the one or more generators that are providing power to the electrical grid.