The projects were approved based on demand forecasts that have now proven excessive.
Parties should be on the phone weekly sharing demand forecasts and market pricing, discussing cash-flow issues, updating pricing, and providing continuous feedback and updates on current business conditions.
Evidence of tightening global food supplies grew as the U.S. Agriculture Department cut its estimates for global harvests of key crops and raised some demand forecasts, adding to worries about rising food prices.
The software forecasts demand for specific products and stores derived from a database of sales history, broken into half-hour increments.
It has examined current demand and congestion forecasts on the Underground after 2020 and assessed the impact on the system of new national projects such as HS2.
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Boeing estimates China's fleets will quadruple in size by 2019, requiring 1, 790 new aircraft, while Airbus forecasts demand for about 1, 600 aircraft over the next 20 years.
In particular, most analysts consider Mr Ghosn's forecasts of demand for electric cars to be wildly optimistic.
He forecasts that demand will grow at an annual rate of 5% to 6% for the rest of this decade.
In 2007 annual gasoline consumption was about 140 billion gallons per year, with forecasts of rising demand.
Our forecasts show that demand may almost double over the next 15 years.
De La Rue will provide forecasts of the demand for cash but it is up to customers to control the supply of their currency.
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It forecasts Japanese domestic demand will hardly grow in the next decade, but growth in the Asian region as a whole will be a robust annual 7 percent.
Both the oil cartel Opec and the International Energy Agency (IEA) have raised their forecasts for oil demand next year, but they say economic growth and hence demand for oil is set to remain relatively subdued in the developed world.
There is a clear risk that it could depress demand below the government's forecasts.
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The firm forecasts global base metals demand growth will rise 5-6% in 2013.
Last week, mining company shares, especially those of BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, took big hits on forecasts of decreasing Chinese demand.
Conservative Iain Stewart (Milton Keynes South), who sits on the committee, said he was finding it difficult to find reliable forecasts of future passenger demand.
In addition, our customer forecasts indicate continued strong demand for industrial, automotive, and communications infrastructure products and some recovery in consumer products, particularly in Japan.
And all economic forecasts see substantial growth in demand for electricity--think just of the coming electric cars--yet lots of problems in meeting it.
He is installing some high-powered Oracle databases so that the company can try to build to customer demand rather than to sometimes wildly inaccurate forecasts.
Hewlett-Packard rallied 0.5%, after its earnings release after the bell Wednesday beat analyst forecasts and inspired some hope that demand for PCs from consumers and businesses is returning.
In the area of renewable and distributed energy resources, which are prone to extreme variability, members can leverage predictive and optimization technologies, increasing the accuracy of their forecasts to balance the supply and demand of electricity and take measures that ensure system reliability.
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He forecasts that for the year the net demand could be JPY 6 trillion.
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Lingering concerns over the recession in the euro zone, an ongoing economic slowdown in China and front and center concerns about the U.S. fiscal cliff are pressuring forecasts for global gross domestic product and demand for crude oil.
And over the coming two decades, where we can expect even more ICT-driven efficiency gains, the EIA still forecasts a 16% aggregate rise in electric demand.
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The upward revision made to Chinese oil demand in 2010, on an average across the main forecasts, totaled some 600, 000 barrels per day since the start of last year.
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He says the debate is really around demand from the memory sector, with most bit growth forecasts at levels where there would be only upgrades of capacity, and not a lot of new capacity.
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That would put silver demand ahead of global economic growth, which the International Monetary Fund forecasts at 3.5% in 2013.
On the fundamentals, natural gas futures have turned up apparently on forecasts of a hot summer, which is expected to increase demand for natural gas.
Councillor Mike Whiting, KCC's cabinet member for education, learning and skills, said school place forecasts were reviewed regularly, and the council expected that increased demand had now peaked in some districts.
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