# Forecasting Energy Consumption: Submission Format has too many rows

**URL:** <https://community.drivendata.org/t/forecasting-energy-consumption-submission-format-has-too-many-rows/2119>\
**Category:** Power Laws\
**Created:** [March 3, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/forecasting-energy-consumption-submission-format-has-too-many-rows/2119 "2018-03-03T16:53:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![amogil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/community.drivendata.org/amogil/32/635_2.png) [@amogil](https://community.drivendata.org/u/amogil)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/forecasting-energy-consumption-submission-format-has-too-many-rows/2119/1 "2018-03-03T16:53:59Z")

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Hi,

Could you please explain why “Submission Format” has two times more rows for each ForecastId than expected?

For example:

```auto
To forecast the consumption for each quarter of an hour over the next 24 hours (96 quarters).
To forecast the consumption for each hour over the next four days (96 hours).
To forecast the consumption for each day over the coming month (30 days).

```

ForecastId = 1 in “Submission Format” has to have 30 rows, but it has 60.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![bull](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/community.drivendata.org/bull/32/8_2.png) [@bull](https://community.drivendata.org/u/bull)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/forecasting-energy-consumption-submission-format-has-too-many-rows/2119/2 "2018-03-03T21:19:09Z")

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The submission format is the canonical source for what you must submit. Some of the forecast period lengths have been updated.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, and we’ll update the materials accordingly.