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Reliability and Rationing Cost in a Power System
Pillai, N. Vijayamohanan - eSocialSciences - 2007
An attempt is made to analyse the implications of the relationship between reliability and rationing cost involved in a … power plants, the rationing costs implied in different reliability target criteria [WP No. 325]. …
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Loss of Load Probability of a Power System
Pillai N, Vijayamohanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
expected to supply electrical energy as economically as possible, and with a high degree of quality and reliability. The … developed countries in general place higher reliability standards on the performance of electricity supply. However, there has … been no significant study in the context of the Indian power sector to analyze reliability in terms of loss of load …
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The Opportunity Cost of Electricity Outages and Privatization of Substations in Nepal
Jyoti, Roop; Ozbafli, Aygul; Jenkins, Glenn - 2006
sector to undertake, even when additional generation capacity to improve overall electricity reliability is not justified. …
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ESTIMATING WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR RELIABLE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY: A CHOICE EXPERIMENT STUDY
Ozbafli, Aygul; Jenkins, Glenn - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2013
This research examines households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for an improved electricity service. Households’ stated WTP is estimated using the choice experiment method (CE). The data used in the estimations came from 350 in-person interviews conducted during the period 5–22 August 2008 in...
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The Opportunity Cost of Electricity Outages and Privatization of Substations in Nepal
Jyoti, Roop; Ozbafli, Aygul; Jenkins, Glenn - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2006
sector to undertake, even when additional generation capacity to improve overall electricity reliability is not justified. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688299
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THE WILLINGNESS TO PAY BY HOUSEHOLDS FOR IMPROVED RELIABILITY OF ELECTRICITY SERVICE
Ozbafli, Aygul; Jenkins, Glenn P. - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2015
–benefit analysis (CBA) indicates that the annualized economic benefits of improved reliability of the electricity service would be … current low-reliability policy to one of providing a high-quality service would yield an economic net present value to the …
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Do Minimum Trading Capacities for the Cross-Zonal Exchange of Electricity Lead to Welfare Losses?
Schönheit, David; Dierstein, Constantin; Möst, Dominik - 2020
Within flow-based market coupling, the EU's preferred method for calculating cross-border trading capacities, recent regulatory changes stipulate minimum trading capacities, so-called minRAMs which have to be provided to electricity markets. Effectively, high predicted utilization levels of...
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Social norms and energy conservation
Allcott, Hunt - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 9, pp. 1082-1095
This paper evaluates a series of programs run by a company called OPOWER to send Home Energy Report letters to residential utility customers comparing their electricity use to that of their neighbors. Using data from randomized natural field experiments at 600,000 treatment and control...
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Plugging into Savings: A New Incentive-Based Market Can Address Ontario’s Power-Surplus Problem
Dachis, Bejamin; Dewees, Donald N. - C. D. Howe Institute - 2011
After years of looming power shortages, Ontario faces instead a periodic problem of excess electricity supply at the same time that new generation capacity is being added. Since Ontario government agencies that purchase power have long-term, fixed-price contracts with many electricity...
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Finding the right yardstick: Regulation under heterogeneous environments
Bjørndal, Endre; Bjørndal, Mette; Cullmann, Astrid; … - 2016
Revenue cap regulation is often combined with systematic benchmarking to reveal the managerial inefficiencies when regulating natural monopolies. One example is the European energy sector, where benchmarking methods are based on actual cost data, which are influenced by managerial inefficiency...
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