Weather Forecasting

High Resolution Hourly Forecast: EPT2-HRRR vs NOAA HRRR

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High-resolution hourly forecasts now sit at the core of energy trading. AI-native models like EPT2-HRRR refresh up to 24 times per day, while traditional NWP remains constrained by HPC cycles.

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EPT2-HRRR delivers ~5 km resolution over Europe with native 100 m hub-height wind and SSRD outputs, avoiding the post-processing that standard NWP models require for energy-specific variables.

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The model runs at ~0.25 kWh inference cost on a single GPU and supports up to 24 daily updates, which keeps rapid-refresh economically viable compared with traditional NWP’s supercomputer requirements.

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EPT-2 outperforms ECMWF HRES on key energy variables across all lead times, with benchmarks documented in arXiv:2507.09703 and independently verifiable through Jua’s live benchmarking platform.

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Jua's EPT2-HRRR delivers 5 km, 24x daily high resolution hourly forecasts for energy trading — outperforming ECMWF HRES at a fraction of the cost.

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