Interruption cost analysis for the electrical power customers in Greece

The objective of this paper is to present a general overview of a customer survey approach which was utilised by the Energy Systems Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in order to conduct an interruption cost assessment of all the different sectors of power customers in Greece. The paper also presents the results that were obtained for the industrial and commercial sectors during the last three years. These results mainly include the interruption cost data and their variation according to the various characteristics of the interruption events and the power customers. The damage functions being obtained for the customers in Greece are compared with the respective functions being published for other countries