ABSTRACT
The ability to distinguish and model the behavior of electric demand based on class of consumer and as a function of time is an important element in many electric load forecasting applications. A wide variety of methods have been developed, but none more successful or applicable to spatial load analysis than the consumer class end-use load model. Consumer class end-use models are ubiquitous in the power industry, and a single chapter cannot begin to cover all of the variations and all of the finer points involved Instead, this discussion will concentrate on the basic concepts and those points which the author feels are important to spatial load forecasting.
