Variations in area- and time-specific marginal capacity costs of electricity distribution

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 560-567

  Grayson Heffher, D H ^a  

^a Energy and Environmental Economics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRICITY;

MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION CAPACITY COSTS (MDCC);

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032074062     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/59.667383     Document Type: Article

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