• DocumentCode
    88294
  • Title

    Customer Interruption Cost in Smart Grids

  • Author

    Safdarian, Amir ; Lehtonen, Matti ; Fotuhi-Firuzabad, Mahmud ; Billinton, Roy

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. Eng. Dept., Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Mar-14
  • Firstpage
    994
  • Lastpage
    995
  • Abstract
    Customers participating in demand response programs known as active customers provide significant flexibility in demand, thereby causing a meaningful reduction in customer interruption cost (CIC) during critical periods. This letter illustrates the impact on the amount of CIC of active customers´ flexible demand realized by smart grid technologies. The focus of this letter is on residential electricity use. The study is applied to actual data from Kainuu, Finland.
  • Keywords
    demand side management; smart power grids; CIC; Finland; active customer flexible demand; customer interruption cost; demand response programs; residential electricity use; smart grids; Educational institutions; Electrical engineering; Electricity; Home appliances; Interrupters; Smart grids; Active customer; customer interruption cost; demand side management; flexible demand; smart grid;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0885-8950
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPWRS.2013.2288019
  • Filename
    6658919