The loss that is unknown is no loss at all: A top-down/bottom-up approach for estimating distribution losses

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1119-1125

  Dortolina, Carlos A ^a   Nadira, Ramón ^b  

^a Stone & Webster Engineering Corp   (United States)

^b TRC Management Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

Losses; Power distribution economics; Power distribution planning

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ESTIMATION; EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DISTRIBUTION LOSSES; POWER DISTRIBUTION ECONOMICS; POWER DISTRIBUTION PLANNING; PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION (PSP);

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 18944374330     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2005.846104     Document Type: Article

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