MBSS® is a comprehensive software system for load research sample design and analysis. The system implements all of the methods currently taught in the AEIC Advanced Methods of Load Research Course. The system will increase your productivity, augment your accountability and transparency, optimize your investment in interval metering, and give you reports that will meet all of your needs. The system has been collaboratively developed and tested by a team of experienced load researchers from leading utilities working with the load research experts of RLW Analytics.

MBSS provides a powerful companion to RLW’s Visualize IT® program.

MBSS is your statistical engine and Visualize-IT is your profile viewer. With MBSS you can develop sample designs and estimate load profiles for your classes and domains of interest. You can use Visualize-IT to validate the load data of each of your sample sites, to examine the load profiles obtained by MBSS, and to interactively prepare graphical and tabular presentations of your results.

The MBSS / Visualize-IT system will help you choose appropriate sample sizes for rate classes and market segments, develop efficiently stratified sample designs, draw your samples, validate your sample data, and estimate 8760-hour load profiles for your rate classes and segments. You will use the system to prepare all of the information required for cost-of-service analysis, rate design, load forecasting, distribution planning, conservation planning, system engineering, and ad hoc queries. MBSS is designed to meet most of your needs out of the box but, since it is programmed in SAS, it can also be customized to your specialized requirements.

MBSS can be used in conjunction with a variety of meter data warehouses such as Compass, Sensus and Lodestar. Alternatively, it can be used directly with MV-90 and your current billing system.