System reliability worth assessment using the customer survey approach

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 317-322

  Chowdhury, Ali Asraf ^a   Mielnik, T C ^a   Lawton, L E ^b   Sullivan, M J ^b   Katz, A ^b   Koval, Don O ^c  

^a Mid American Energy Company   (United States)

^b Freeman   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Customer surveys; Interruption cost; Power system; Reliability cost reliability worth; Value of service

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; POWER TRANSMISSION; RELIABILITY; SALES; SURVEYS;

CUSTOMER SURVEYS; INTERRUPTION COST; POWER SYSTEM; RELIABILITY COST/RELIABILITY WORTH; VALUE OF SERVICE;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION;

EID: 59649129621     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2008.2009492     Document Type: Article

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