Measurement and application of customer interruption costs/value of service for cost-benefit reliability evaluation: Some commonly raised issues

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 1333-1344

  Sanghvi, Arun P ^a  

^a RCG/Hagler Bailly Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS--RELIABILITY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

CUSTOMER INTERRUPTION; ELECTRIC SERVICE RELIABILITY;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES;

EID: 0025521546     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: 15580679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/59.99385     Document Type: Article

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