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 …

, lower reliability), concerns have been raised in states currently considering restructuring as to whether their systems are …

, lower reliability), concerns have been raised in states currently considering restructuring as to whether their systems are …

The Standardized Plant Analysis Risk-Human Reliability Analysis (SPAR-H) method has proved to be a reliable, easy …-to-use method for human reliability analysis. Calculation of human error probability (HEP) rates is especially straightforward … provides a much needed cross-reference for human reliability practitioners and researchers of SPAR-H to validate analyses and …

increasingly important to assess the economic and reliability impact of these intermittent resources. Although the utility industry … appears to be moving towards a restructured environment, basic economic and reliability issues will continue to be relevant to …. This second paper focuses on wind plant capacity credit as measured with power system reliability indices. Reliability …

], neither of these papers accounts for the wind forecast in the reliability calculation. That omission is rectified here. For …

reliability analysis methods from a single common object model. Automatic model extraction helps ensure consistency among analyses … the rules required to interrogate the common object model for derivation of traditional risk and reliability analysis …

and reliability signals; Provide customers with capability to automate customized DR strategies; Automate DR, providing … reliability and be a good corporate citizen, the drivers for widespread Auto-DR will likely differ. Ultimately, most industrial …