Open load forecasts that beat US grid operators on 6 of 7 RTOs

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Fine-tuned Chronos-2 on 7 years of EIA-930 demand + ASOS temperature for every US balancing authority that publishes a load series — 53 across the three interconnections. On a 2025 hold-out (~61,000 hours), it beats the operators' own day-ahead submissions to EIA — the product...

Published: Apr 20, 2026
First seen: Apr 20, 2026

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Primary public product URL is https://surgeforecast.com/.
Description: Fine-tuned Chronos-2 on 7 years of EIA-930 demand + ASOS temperature for every US balancing authority that publishes a load series — 53 across the three interconnections. On a 2025 hold-out (~61,000 hours), it beats t....
Listed on Hacker News as "Open load forecasts that beat US grid operators on 6 of 7 RTOs".
Source description: Fine-tuned Chronos-2 on 7 years of EIA-930 demand + ASOS temperature for every US balancing authority that publishes a load series — 53 across the three interconnections. On a 2025 hold-out (~61,000 hours), it beats t....
Source publish date is 2026-04-20.

Use Cases

Primary discovery source is Hacker News.
Hacker News mention is recent (2026-04-20).
Primary public product URL is https://surgeforecast.com/.
Description: Fine-tuned Chronos-2 on 7 years of EIA-930 demand + ASOS temperature for every US balancing authority that publishes a load series — 53 across the three interconnections. On a 2025 hold-out (~61,000 hours), it beats t....
Listed on Hacker News as "Open load forecasts that beat US grid operators on 6 of 7 RTOs".

Why Now

Open load forecasts that beat US grid operators on 6 of 7 RTOs is appearing on fresh discovery surfaces, so it is worth reviewing while momentum is still forming. Confidence is currently low (41/100), so treat this as an early signal rather than a settled trend.

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Listed on Hacker News as "Open load forecasts that beat US grid operators on 6 of 7 RTOs".
Source description: Fine-tuned Chronos-2 on 7 years of EIA-930 demand + ASOS temperature for every US balancing authority that publishes a load series — 53 across the three interconnections. On a 2025 hold-out (~61,000 hours), it beats t....
Source publish date is 2026-04-20.
Description: Fine-tuned Chronos-2 on 7 years of EIA-930 demand + ASOS temperature for every US balancing authority that publishes a load series — 53 across the three interconnections. On a 2025 hold-out (~61,000 hours), it beats t....
Primary public product URL is https://surgeforecast.com/.

Signals

Hacker News mention is recent (2026-04-20).
Primary discovery source is Hacker News.

Inference

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Unknowns

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Open load forecasts that beat US grid operators on 6 of 7 RTOs
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Primary public product URL is https://surgeforecast.com/.
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