Future EV ownership and commuting hourly load impacts
Demand management program impacts
Electrification and price response impacts
Extreme weather extreme impacts
SGRC models use data from the 7+ million MAISY Residential Utility Customer Database
in an AI
machine-learning process to model actual utility customers in ZIPs and neighborhoods
within each utility service area.
An Excel workbook interface provides easy-to-use applications.
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Consortium definition: "A consortium is an association of two or
more organizations with the objective of participating in a common activity
or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal." source: Wikipedia
The Smart Grid Research Consortium (SGRC) was established at Texas A&M University in
2008 to provide utilities with smart grid technology and program cost/benefit
models to evaluate new untested technologies/programs for individual
utilities. Models reflected unique utility system characteristics to
provide utility-specific expected costs and benefit analysis.
SGRC management transitioned from Texas A&M to Jackson Associates in 2011 when consortium
developer and leader, Dr. Jerry Jackson left his Signature Professorship at A&M
and accepted responsibility
for meeting continuing needs of Consortium members through his consulting firm.
By 2018 field experience with most smart grid technologies and programs
provided utility decision-makers with sufficient results to move beyond a model-based
decision process.
SGRC 2.0 has been re-energized in 2025 to address new electric utility uncertainty
challenges that are now more
focused on substation, distribution and even tranformer grid threats posed by:
increased EV ownership and charging profiles
increasing electrification, and
weather extremes
Assessing these challenges requires knowlege of baseline ZIP and neighborhood
whole building utility
customer loads and of future EV charging loads,
electrification and extreme weather impacts.
New SGRC models provide member utilities with the ability to identify these
challenges and to explore demand management, pricing and grid upgrade strategies to
avoid threats to grid stability.
Not sure exactly what data items you need, or which data items are best for the project at
hand? - Let us help!
– just e-mail us with your
questions and/or suggest a time to discuss.
We provide free consultations to help identify the most useful
data/analysis for your application. We also provide free telephone support to assist in client
data applications after data delivery.
Our no-hassle data-delivery is available as
(1) detailed databases, (2) tables and crosstabs or (3)
more detailed analysis results with exactly the information you
need.
MAISY AI agent-based models
provide
forecasts and
analysis
for geographic areas ranging from ZIP codes to utility
service areas to states. Model output can also provide detailed household record data for
users who want to drill down on specific issues.
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Smart grid, solar, battery storage, DER market
analysis and peak hour impacts
Microgrid design and assessments
Residential household forecasts including household income, demographics,
dwelling unit, appliance, energy use, and hourly loads data for 6+ million US households
Dwelling unit data, e.g., square feet, space heating equipment, appliances, etc.
Location data: ZIP code, county, place, metro area, 30-year degree days
Annual Energy Use by fuel type (electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, propane) and end use.
8760 and 15-minute kW loads (whole building and end-use, including EVs, monthly averages)
Why trust Jackson Associates (JA) to help with your forecasting, analysis and data needs? The internet is filled with sites
offering all kinds of information, often of dubious quality - consider the following:
We take responsibility for data integrity - providing decision-makers with information
that often informs multi-million-dollar investment decisions- decisions related to product development,
marketing and sales strategies for some of the largest US corporations.
Our energy, hourly load data, and forecasts/analysis results and our expert witness testimony
have supported electric utility and regulatory agency investment decisions in dozens of states.
MAISY data have provided the information basis for development of several US Department of Energy
energy efficiency standards.
Finally, our analytical reputation is outstanding. We were among the first to apply machine
learning to integrate and validate disparate data sources and have extended applications
to include a variety of
statistical enhancements. Our patented business intelligence drill-down software
(US Patent 5,894,311, Computer-Based Visual Data Evaluation) has been licensed by
every major business intellegence software and database provider including Microsoft, SAP,
Oracle, and others.