Framework and Review of Customer Outage Costs: Integration and Analysis of Electric Utility Outage Cost Surveys

摘要

Ensuring reliability has and will continue to be a priority for electricity industry restructuring. Indeed, the blackout in the Northeast highlights the significant public and private interest in electricity reliability. A key aspect of having electricity available on-demand, whether it is to individual households or large industrial complexes, is the fact that outages - brief or extended - interrupt essential as well as discretionary use of appliances, motors, electronics and other devices for which electricity is the primary, if not the only, source of energy. Ensuring reliability, however, is a complex and multi-faceted problem that necessarily involves actions taken by both public and private decision makers. Strategies to provide reliable service are numerous, and some carry hefty price tags.