Geoff Guenther

Direct Energy Corporate Speaker
http://www.directenergy.com/

Energy Forecasting with High Performing Databases

As a retail energy provider, Direct Energy must accurately predict its customers power and gas consumption in advance. This paper describes some techniques used to develop an accurate and timely Energy Forecasting system that leveraged some current database technology to minimize temporal complexity and maximize computational performance. Thus enabling Direct Energy to be able to participate in highly volatile North American Energy Markets.

Biography

IS Director - US South, Energy Management Group(EMG) and Growth Markets

Geoff joined Direct Energy in Nov 2002, and is based in Calgary, AB. He is responsible for the Energy Trading and Risk Management Groups in both Houston and Calgary. This group's responsibilities include retail responsibilities such as developing load forecasting systems to estimate customer consumption as well as retail pricing systems.

Prior to joining, Geoff had founded an offshore development company, which developed Risk Management and Trading systems for companies such as Enron and New Power. This was an early foray into the combination of natural gas and power commodities in trading, as well as managing both wholesale and retail risk. He also worked in an artificial intelligence company which did case law searches as well as in a biomedical firm in the field of cardiac electrophysiology.

Geoff has a BA in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia as well as a BSc in Computer Science from the same school.