@inproceedings{32056,
  author = {Peter H Larsen and James L Sweeney and Joseph H Eto and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare},
  title = {Exploring the Reliability of U.S. Electric Utilities},
  abstract = {<p>The purpose of this paper is to build on previous research (Eto et al. 2012) by using more comprehensive econometric analysis techniques to evaluate the long-term reliability of U.S. electric utilities.&nbsp; This analysis explores a range of factors which are correlated with reliability in order to answer the following questions: (1) Are there utility-specific differences in reported electricity reliability?; (2) How is reliability affected by the installation or upgrade of an automated outage management system (OMS)?; (3) Are deviations in annual sales correlated with changes in utility reliability?; (4) How do basic weather observations affect the frequency and duration of system outages?; (5) How do annual transmission and distribution expenditures affect the frequency and duration of system outages?; (6) Do utilities that follow IEEE-recommended reliability data reporting standards report significantly different reliability from those who do not follow IEEE data reporting standards?; and (7) Are there unexplained trends in reported electricity reliability over time?</p>},
  year = {2014},
  journal = {37th IAEE International Conference},
  month = {06/2014},
  publisher = {International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE)},
  address = {New York, NY},
  url = {https://www.iaee.org/proceedings/article/8067},
  language = {eng},
}