• DocumentCode
    3584571
  • Title

    Estimating the value of reliability for residential customers

  • Author

    Tiedemann, Kenneth H.

  • Author_Institution
    BC Hydro, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    747
  • Lastpage
    751
  • Abstract
    In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to customer costs of power outages. This paper estimates residential costs of outages using both the direct cost method and the contingent valuation method. Three cost perspectives are used: cost per outage incident; cost per hour; and cost per kW.h lost. Regression modeling is used to explain outage costs as a function of outage length, time of day and season.
  • Keywords
    costing; customer services; power system reliability; regression analysis; contingent valuation method; direct cost method; power outages; regression modeling; residential cost estimation; residential customer reliability; Cost accounting; Cost function; Customer satisfaction; Customer service; Databases; Electricity supply industry; Information analysis; Telephony;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, 2004 International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-9761319-1-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1378780