Services

Marquette Energy Analytics— delivering accurate forecasts, accessible expertise, and reliable customer guidance.

Developed with solid, academic foundations, Marquette Energy Analytics, LLC’s services have been carefully fashioned to support utilities in the American energy industry. We offer a range of solutions to handle the various demand forecasting needs of our customers and the frequently changing requirements of our industry.

→ NATURAL GAS DEMAND FORECASTING

→ ELECTRIC POWER DEMAND FORECASTING

→ DESIGN DAY AND LONG-RANGE DEMAND STUDIES

→ CONSULTING & INDIVIDUAL PREMISE FORECASTING

Natural Gas Demand Forecasting

Over 28% of American Natural Gas demand is forecasted by Marquette Energy Analytics, LLC. To get there, we spent almost thirty years working with American utilities in development, partnership, and understanding. This has resulted building trust -trust that Marquette Energy Analytics’ Natural Gas forecasts deliver high accuracy, high customer satisfaction, and are delivered with world class support. Through this work and partnership, our suite of Natural Gas Forecasting tools- MCast ™ GasDay, MCast ™ GasHour, GasMonth and GasYear have become the industry standard for predicting natural gas demand.

DAILY NATURAL GAS FORECASTER

MCast ™ GasDay offers proven forecasting models delivered as a Software-as-a-Service product. It is used by dozens of LDCs around the country to deliver natural gas to more than 28 million individual customers. It forecasts daily gas demand 8 days into the future; models are custom-built to local needs, local weather, and local historical data. Once in service your forecaster will automatically track and adjust for your customers’ changing behavior.

Features included in the SaaS Platform are:

Analytics/ Visualizations
Forecast History
Similar Days Chart
Forecast Performance Stats

HOURLY NATURAL GAS FORECASTER

MCast ™ GasHour is a cloud-based product that delivers hour-by-hour forecasts for the next 106 hours (4+ days). It is useful for larger utilities to manage their flow during the day. It uses 106 proprietary forecast models developed specifically for hourly forecasting. MCast ™ GasHour™ is an excellent tool for anticipating the hourly load demand of a distribution system. It is used by many LDCs as a tool to manage flow, storage, and balances throughout the day.

MONTHLY/ANNUAL NATURAL GAS FORECASTS

Marquette Energy Analytics’ GasMonth and GasYear reports provide detailed long-range summaries of forecasted demand from a month, to multiple years out (840+ days ahead). These longer-range reports assist utilities in understanding what the general demand will be.

Electric Power Demand Forecasting

Our MCast™ Power Software starts with a tried, tested, and proven mathematical foundation. Our data scientist pair that with a dynamic and wide range of advanced and constantly improving mathematical models to accurately predict a region’s hourly electricity usage up to 168 hours (7+ days out). The evolving nature of this system ensures that our accuracy and reliability lead the pack when it comes to forecasting the constantly changing nature of electric power demand.

A CUSTOM SOLUTION

Our electric power forecasting models are customized to each region’s historical data. Our forecasts are fine-tuned, and custom designed to meet local needs, including tuning parameters, adding weather inputs, and data cleaning.

HIGH ACCURACY ON UNUSUAL DAYS

Track and analyze balances throughout the day with detailed hourly forecasting up to four days out.

DESIGN DAY, LONG-RANGE, AND CUSTOM DEMAND STUDIES

Our Design Day Studies and Long-Range Studies are most often used to assist utilities in forecasting demand for their peak demand day and to provide insight into what conditions that may result in that day of peak demand. Using these studies, utilities can judge their current infrastructure based on forecasted periods of peak demand. Our studies and delivered reports have been used in regulatory tribunals, by both supply and control groups. We also construct custom studies to help predict business success. In some cases, utilities require demand forecasts that have never been developed before, or require reports with additional specific requirements. As the analytical engine that helps energy companies plan for their customers’ future, we can help with this as well, contact us about our Custom Demand Study Solutions.

CUSTOMER CLASS

We are experienced in developing customer-class studies and long-range econometrics-based forecasting projects. We have forecasted neighborhood-by-neighborhood, zip code-by-zip code, and street-by-street, to name a few.

CUSTOM STUDIES

Not every demand forecast utilities want has been done before- not to worry. We create and execute hyper-individualized custom studies to predict business success. We often help large energy companies improve their operations, either by reducing costs or by supporting services that generate new earnings through our custom studies.

CONSULTING & INDIVIDUAL PREMISE FORECASTING

Our industry continues to become more complex in its requirements and demands more data to support long term business decisions. Marquette Energy Analytics is uniquely positioned to partner with utilities in tackling these new obstacles. We retain a staff of experienced industry leading experts that can weigh in on events, forecasts, regulatory tribunals, or any individual request dealing with forecasting demand.

FORECASTING BY PREMISE

In addition to consulting, we now offer forecasting by premise, or leveled forecasting, to further help utilities navigate this constantly changing landscape. This advanced level of granularity in our studies allows for a more detailed examination of areas that have previously been restricted by limited data sets.