Decision Systems International
DSI has been providing advanced electric power system training services, software products, and consulting/R&D services on a national and international scale since 1988. The current DSI concentration areas are short-term load forecasting, market simulation and foreasting, electric power market design, and renewable energy systems and with the corresponding training focus on system operators, market operators, and market designers.
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The Need for Accurate Forecasting is Greater than EverDSI Launches ARSPECTICAARSPECTICA is designed to provide accurate load forecasts with less than 2% MAPE (Mean Absolute Percent Error) for 2-days ahead forecasts. click here for more details. Gain significant short-term forecasting improvements for the next 1-168 hours: MW Demands Price forecast Wind farm production forecasts For more information you are invited to contact Dr. Debs directly at: adebs@dsipower.com |
Upcoming Training Events, Spring 2009Four Course Program in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates1. Power System Restoration: Methodologies, Implementation Strategies and Hands-On Experiences (April 26-30, 2009). Click here for pdf brochure download
2. Challenges to Emergency Operations Under Stress (May 3-7, 2009). Click here for pdf brochure download
3. Planning and Operation of Electricity Markets in the Middle East (May 10-14, 2009). Click here for pdf brochure download
4. Heat Rate Awareness for Power Plants (May 10-14, 2009) Click here for pdf brochure download Site for these Spring 2009 courses is: Full Article Details
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DSI Power & Industry News
Thursday, January 17, 2008 DSI with the sponsorship of APEX, Dubai, conducted its well-established "Challenge to System Operations Under Stress: Modules A and B" in Dubai during the period December 2-9, 2007. The courses were attended by control center staff from Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Sharja and Jordan. Already we started receiving reports that the training they received has helped in guiding their dispatchers in some critical operational problems. There was almost unanimous request that the follow-up series (Module C) be announced as soon as possible. Thursday, January 17, 2008 DSI announces hands on training program for emergency operations "Train the Trainer": Module C: Development and Evaluation of Stress Scenarios for Emergency and Restoration. Thursday, January 17, 2008 DSI announces its full service for short-term load forecasting based on the EPRI ANNSTLF (Atificial Neural Networks Short-Term Load Forecasting). This proven technology that is used with major utilities like PJM, Southern Company, ISO-New England, ONS (Brazil), ELIA (Belgium) and at least 35 other utilities is now available via a powerful web-based system developed by DSI under EPRI sposorship. For details send e-mail to info@dsipower.com
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Dr. Debs' Column
The Structuring of Deregulation! The current economic crisis has given "deregulation" a bad score and the government is now working hard to "regulate." The banking industry is being partially nationalized to avoid the suspected collapse of our financial system. Amazingly, this is happening just over 10 years after major parts of the US introduced deregulation and restructuring in electricity markets on a large scale. This experience in the power industry had major ups, downs and setbacks, but thanks to cool heads and the availability of good options the clock was not rolled back to the full regulation days. Full column
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