Cost of Power Interruptions to Electricity Consumers in the United States (U.S.)

摘要: The massive electric power blackout in the northeastern U.S. and Canada on August 14-15, 2003 catalyzed discussions about modernizing electricity grid. Industry sources suggested that investments of $50 to $100 billion would be needed. This work seeks better understand an important piece information has been missing from these discussions: What do interruptions fluctuations quality (power-quality events) cost consumers? We developed a bottom-up approach for assessing consumers power-quality events (referred collectively as reliability ). can used help assess potential benefits improving new estimate based publicly available information, assessed how uncertainties data affect this using sensitivity analysis.