Quantifying reliability and service quality for distribution systems

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 188-195

  McGranaghan, Mark F ^a  

^a EPRI Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Economics; Power quality; Reliability; Service quality

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; INVESTMENTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RELIABILITY;

SERVICE QUALITY INDEX; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33947283214     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2006.886990     Document Type: Article

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