State Regulatory Applications

With competitive electric market retrenchment and continuing oversight responsibility in states where deregulation plans are proceeding, regulatory needs have significantly increased in most states over the last several years. MAISY state and utility service area databases and policy models can help fill current analysis needs. Jackson Associates has worked with utilities and state regulators across the US since 1982, addressing capacity expansion, DSM, integrated resource planning, rates and other issues. Our models and analysis capabilities are highly regarded; for instance, all seven electric utilities and the New York State Energy Office relied on Jackson Associates customer database and model analysis to evaluate and address a wide variety of regulatory issues.

Forecasting Products

Jackson Associates provides state-of-the-art econometric, end-use and microsimulation models to meet forecasting and analysis needs in the individual states.

MAISY End-Use Forecasting and Microsimulation models provide assessments and forecasts of state energy use, prices, expenditures and the impacts of future supply constraints. Detailed environmental forecasts support analysis and evaluations of alternative energy supply scenarios including alternative energy applications.

Basic Utility Customer Database Products

MAISY Utility Customer Databases have been developed from information on more than one million individual utility customers throughout the US and provide a representative sample of customers for individual states, regions and utility service areas.

MAISY Utility Customer Database Products Include:

	State Utility Customer Databases provide extensive building structure, building and end-use energy use, equipment, conservation, electricity, natural gas and oil consumption data including hourly loads and other energy-related variables along with traditional economic and demographic information for utility customers throughout the US. Information on total energy and customer counts as well as detailed customer and customer segment information is available with a patented point-and-click data evaluation and exploration user interface. All data in the state-level databases can be exported for analysis or use with other software.
	Service Area Utility Customer Databases provide the same customer detail as the State-Level Databases. Databases are available for any electric utility service area including investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, public utility districts, and co-op areas. Utility Customer Hourly Load Databases include hourly load data for each customer record in the state and utility customer databases. Hour loads are available as (1) day-type/month with 24 hourly profiles for each of the three day types (week day, peak day, week end day) and for each month for electric, natural gas and fuel oil or (2) 8,760 hourly loads for the total building and individual end uses for electricity, natural gas and fuel oil. Online hourly loads and electricity bill estimates are now available at dgmarketplace.com Demand Response and DSM Databases provide hourly demand response (DR) and DSM potentials and estimated DR and DSM program impacts for each customer in the State and Utility Service Area Databases. These database extensions are provided on a custom basis.
	MAISY Canadian Province and Service Area Databases products incorporate information from Statistics Canada, including population surveys, surveys of employment payrolls and hours and labor force surveys along with data from Canadian utilities, association data, proprietary Canadian customer data as well on-site survey and utility billing data of commercial customers from northern tier US states. Australian Utility Customer Databases are available for the 8 states and territories in Australia along with databases for metropolitan areas and cities. Databases reflect 8760 weather data for individual Australian locations.
	Custom Database Extractions are available for clients needing only a subset of the MAISY database information. Custom data ranges from a few summary statistics to large relational databases. If you have energy-related information needs, Jackson Associates can provide the data.

Demand Response Potentials and Program Impacts

MAISY Demand Response Databases provide hourly demand response (DR) potentials and estimated DR program impacts in regulated and competitive markets.

MAISY Demand Response Databases include end-use-detailed and program-detailed demand response (DR) potentials and estimated program impacts for a statistically representative sample of individual residential, commercial and industrial customers for every state and utility service area in the US. Customer detail in the databases permits users to determine DR potentials and program impacts for total customer classes (residential, commercial and industrial), user-defined customer segments and individual customers.

DR databases include customer-detailed building, equipment and operating information and 8760 hourly end-use (space heating, air conditioning, lighting, process, etc.) loads from the MAISY Utility Service Area Customer Databases along with DR end-use and program hourly load potentials and program impacts including hourly kW potentials and program impacts of standby/emergency generators.

MAISY Demand Response Databases are especially valuable in DR planning because they include all service area customers and programs providing valuable information on demand response resources available from customers not currently included in many DR programs.

Other Modeling and Analysis Applications

Revenue and Cost Management Systems provide a cost and efficiency-based system to evaluate performance of individual utilities in meeting customer needs and regulatory requirements.