Empirical analysis of the impact of 2003 blackout on security values of U.S. utilities and electrical equipment manufacturing firms

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1012-1018

  Joo, Sung Kwan ^a   Kim, Jang Chul ^b   Liu, Chen Ching ^c  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackout; Electric utilities; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRICITY; RISK ANALYSIS;

BLACKOUT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548037689     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2007.901278     Document Type: Article

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