ABSTRACT
This chapter is structured much differently from previous chapters. It presents in narrative form, and almost painful detail, the story of a distribution planner who performs a complete simulation-based distribution load forecast manually. Manual application of the simulation approach is usually impractical, because data volume alone makes noncomputerized studies much too time-consuming. Beyond that, a computer is really necessary to properly analyze and balance the myriad factors that a simulation might address while producing a forecast.
