enron ' s new weather system , courtesy the research dept . v
last night , i tested our new system for real - time surveillance and messaging
of the weather , and it delivers the data to desktops throughout the building
more than 6 1 / 2 minutes before the national weather service updates their
webpages . our current technology was web - scraping these pages via ftp , then
parsing into a database . the impact of these 6 1 / 2 minutes for the hourly
power traders is enormous - the weather stations upload their data around 53
minutes after the hour , and we can now receive them within 2 minutes later .
we can now re - estimate our nonlinear stack model before the top of the hour ,
when hourly power trading begins . otherwise , we would not have model results
until around 15 minutes after the hour . notably , hourly power trading is , for
all intents and purposes , concluded by then ( they trade for 10 - 15 minutes and
manage the scheduling for the next 30 or so miutes ) . so , effectively , we may
now be one * hour * ahead of where we were just a few days ago , in terms of
information . people are very excited up here , from the cto on down - thanks
for letting it happen .
c
enron ' s new weather system , courtesy the research dept .
v
last night , i tested our new system for real - time surveillance and messaging
of the weather , and it delivers the data to desktops throughout the building
more than 6 1 / 2 minutes before the national weather service updates their
webpages . our current technology was web - scraping these pages via ftp , then
parsing into a database . the impact of these 6 1 / 2 minutes for the hourly
power traders is enormous - the weather stations upload their data around 53
minutes after the hour , and we can now receive them within 2 minutes later .
we can now re - estimate our nonlinear stack model before the top of the hour ,
when hourly power trading begins . otherwise , we would not have model results
until around 15 minutes after the hour . notably , hourly power trading is , for
all intents and purposes , concluded by then ( they trade for 10 - 15 minutes and
manage the scheduling for the next 30 or so miutes ) . so , effectively , we may
now be one * hour * ahead of where we were just a few days ago , in terms of
information . people are very excited up here , from the cto on down - thanks
for letting it happen .
c