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Julieta Giraldez Leads Report on Long-Term Load and DER Forecasting

By Julieta Giraldez

The Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG), a non-profit that leverages the expertise of the technical community to support grid transformation and energy systems integration, has released a new report on Long-Term Load and DER Forecasting. The report addresses key challenges in long-term load and distributed energy resource (DER) forecasting in today’s transforming grid.

 EPE’s Julieta Giraldez, Director of Integrated Grid Planning and chair of the Long-Term Load and DER Forecasting Task Force, led the report, which examines how variable renewable generation, electrification, and rising adoption of customer-sited technologies such as solar, battery storage, and electric vehicles are reshaping forecasting and grid planning.

 Read the full report: https://www.esig.energy/long-term-load-and-der-forecasting/

Watch the webinar: https://www.esig.energy/event/webinar-load-der-forecasting/

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About the Author

Julieta Giraldez

Julieta Giraldez

Julieta Giraldez is a nationally and internationally recognized subject matter expert in distributed energy resource (DER) grid integration with extensive expertise in grid modeling and planning processes. She currently works at Electric Power Engineers (EPE) as a Director of Integrated Grid Planning where she implements holistic approaches to meet customers’ needs through the optimized planning and operation of generation, transmission, distribution, and distributed resources. Prior to joining EPE, she served as a Director of Grid Planning at Kevala Inc., where she focused on implementing proactive capacity planning and electrification impact studies for utilities and regulators. Julieta also worked for a decade at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) as a Senior Engineer where she led Smart Grid and Grid Integration related projects to manage emerging technologies such as PV, energy storage and microgrids in distribution systems. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain) in Technical Mining Engineering, a master’s in electrical engineering from Colorado School of Mines, and a Ph.D. program in systems engineering from Colorado State University.