Cost of Power Interruptions

Baik, Sunhee, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo. Consumer Benefits of A Clean Energy Transition: The resilience value of residential solar + storage systems in the continental U.S. 2024.

Larsen, Peter H, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Alan H Sanstad, Sunhee Baik, Ian Sue Wing, Dan Wei, Adam Rose, Jeremy Smith, Christopher Ramee, and Ridge Peterson. Power Outage Economics Tool: A Prototype for the Commonwealth Edison Service Territory. 2024.

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Larsen, Peter H, Lisa C Schwartz, and Joe Paladino. "Resilience Training for the Public Utility Commission of Texas." 2023.

Estimating the Economic Impacts of Power Interruptions (or the Value of Reliability/Resilience) PDF

Economic Impacts of Widespread, Long Duration Power Interruptions PDF

Distribution System, Grid Modernization, and Resilience Planning PDF

Integrated Distribution System Planning: Status, Challenges, and Approaches PDF

Causes and Impacts of Grid Outages, Metrics for Measuring Resilience, and Valuing and Prioritizing Strategies PDF

Macmillan, Madeline, Kyle Wilson, Sunhee Baik, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Anamika Dubey, and Christine A Holland. "Shedding light on the economic costs of long-duration power outages: A review of resilience assessment methods and strategies." Energy Research & Social Science 99 (2023).

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Schellenberg, Josh A, and Peter H Larsen. "Changes to the Underlying Econometric Models for the Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator." 2018.

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Baik, Sunhee, Nichole L Hanus, Alan H Sanstad, Joseph H Eto, and Peter H Larsen. A Hybrid Approach to Estimating the Economic Value of Enhanced Power System Resilience. 2021.

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Sanstad, Alan H, Qianru Zhu, Benjamin Leibowicz, Peter H Larsen, and Joseph H Eto. Case Studies of the Economic Impacts of Power Interruptions and Damage to Electricity System Infrastructure from Extreme Events. 2020.

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LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Joseph H Eto, Laurel N Dunn, and Michael D Sohn. "Improving the Estimated Cost of Sustained Power Interruptions to Electricity Customers." Energy 153.15 June 2018 (2018) 1038–1047.

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Sullivan, Michael J, Myles T Collins, Josh A Schellenberg, and Peter H Larsen. Estimating Power System Interruption Costs: A Guidebook for Electric Utilities. 2018.

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Larsen, Peter H, Brent Boehlert, Joseph H Eto, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Jeremy Martinich, and Lisa Rennels. Projecting Future Costs to U.S. Electric Utility Customers from Power Interruptions. 2017.

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Mills, Evan, and Richard B Jones. "An Insurance Perspective on U.S. Electric Grid Disruption Costs." The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice 41.4 (2016) 555–586.

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Schellenberg, Josh A, Barney Speckman, and Joseph H Eto. "Integrating customer interruption costs into outage management systems." IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference. IEEE, 2016.

Schellenberg, Josh A. "Using Customer Reliability Benefits to Support Business Cases for Smart Grid Investments." 2015.

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Sanstad, Alan H. Regional Economic Modeling of Electricity Supply Disruptions: A Review and Recommendations for Research. 2016.

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Nexant, Nexant. "ICE Calculator Case Study: EPB Chattanooga Distribution Automation." 2015.

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Nexant, Nexant. "ICE Calculator Case Study: CMP Distribution Automation." 2015.

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Sullivan, Michael J, Josh A Schellenberg, and Marshall Blundell. Updated Value of Service Reliability Estimates for Electric Utility Customers in the United States. 2015.

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Koomey, Jonathan G, Chris Calwell, John A Laitner, Jane Thornton, Richard E Brown, Joseph H Eto, Carrie A Webber, and Cathy Cullicott. "Sorry, wrong number: The use and misuse of numerical facts in analysis and media reporting of energy issues." Ed. Robert H Socolow, Dennis Anderson, and John Harte. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 2002 27 (2002) 119–158.

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Eto, Joseph H, Jonathan G Koomey, Bryan Lehman, Nathan C Martin, Evan Mills, Carrie A Webber, and Ernst Worrell. Scoping Study on Trends in the Economic Value of Electricity Reliability to the U.S. Economy. 2001.

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Lawton, Leora, Michael J Sullivan, Kent Van Liere, Aaron Katz, and Joseph H Eto. A Framework and Review of Customer Outage Costs: Integration and Analysis of Electric Utility Outage Cost Surveys. Berkeley: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2003.

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