Ensuring reliability has and will continue to be a priority for electricity industry restructuring. Assessing the … balance between public and private actions to ensure reliability should be guided in part by an understanding of the value of … reliability to the nations' residential, commercial and industrial customers. Yet, there is no comprehensive body of information …

the form of decreased grid congestion, improved system reliability, market efficiency, price stabilization, hedging …

surrounding the reliability of electric power systems in restructured markets as well as security worries are the latest reasons … connection between system peak demand and system reliability an important driver of public policy in the electric utility sector …

periods of high generation supply costs or system reliability contingencies. Efforts to introduce DR into retail electricity …

-based communications data model designed to facilitate sending and receiving demand response price and reliability signals from a utility …

benefits (and costs) resulting from the impacts of RTOs on reliability management, generation and transmission investment and … crafting more comprehensive assessments of these impacts based on actual performance, including impacts on reliability …

customer participation in these markets to enhance system reliability and reduce price volatility is sorely needed. Indeed …, allowing customers to manage their loads in response to system conditions might be thought of as the ultimate reliability … incentive to modify these decisions in ways that might enhance system reliability or improve the efficiency of the markets in …

Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS, http://certs.lbl.gov) that is intended to attack and, hopefully, resolve the …

reliability for electricity customers in the US. These estimates were obtained by analyzing the results from 28 customer value of … service reliability studies conducted by 10 major US electric utilities over the 16 year period from 1989 to 2005. Because … integrate their results into a single meta-database describing the value of electric service reliability observed in all of them …

availability, dispatchability, diversity, and reliability of generating alternatives are also considered in the decisionmaking …