Estimating the value of reliability for business customers

2004 International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 742-746

  Tiedemann, Kenneth H ^a,b  

^a BC HYDRO   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contingent valuation; Direct costs; Outages; Reliability

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA ACQUISITION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER TRANSMISSION; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

CONTINGENT VALUATION (CV); DIRECT COSTS; MICRO-ECONOMIC THEORY; OUTAGE COSTS;

OUTAGES;

EID: 14544294951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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