DocumentCode :
2229301
Title :
Residential customer outage cost valuation for urban areas in Nepal
Author :
Karki, Nava Raj ; Verma, Ajit Kumar ; Mishra, Arbind Kumar ; Karki, Rajesh ; Shrestha, Jayandra
Author_Institution :
Reliability Eng. Group, Indian Inst. of Technol., Bombay, Mumbai, India
fYear :
2008
fDate :
28-30 Sept. 2008
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
8
Abstract :
Utilities in most of the developing countries do not possess relevant information to evaluate the electricity supply outage cost incurred by the customers. This paper shows the significance of customer survey techniques to evaluate customer outage cost in developing countries in the era of restructuring and globalization. Residential customer surveys that are extensively used by utilities in the developed countries can not be directly adopted in developing countries. Relevant modifications that incorporate customer behaviour in the rapidly changing socio-economic characteristics in those nations must be adequately addressed. The results obtained using customer survey techniques are consistent with the figures anticipated and also indicate toward the need to carry out such surveys for other customer categories as well. The survey questionnaire is designed to obtain customer information to have uninterrupted power supply based on their willingness to pay (WTP), alternative actions and willingness to accept (WTA) monetary compensation for agreeing frequent supply interruptions. The outage cost evaluation is carried out using least square error method by a computer program developed in MATLAB platform.
Keywords :
consumer behaviour; least mean squares methods; power system economics; uninterruptible power supplies; MATLAB platform; Nepal; computer program; customer behaviour; customer survey techniques; electricity supply outage cost; least square error method; residential customer outage cost valuation; socio-economic characteristics; survey questionnaire; uninterrupted power supply; willingness to accept monetary compensation; willingness to pay monetary compensation; Computer errors; Cost accounting; Energy consumption; Globalization; History; Least squares methods; MATLAB; Power supplies; Power system reliability; Urban areas; Residential customer surveys; WTA; electricity supply outage costWTP; preparatory actions;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Power Symposium, 2008. NAPS '08. 40th North American
Conference_Location :
Calgary, AB
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4283-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/NAPS.2008.5307315
Filename :
5307315
Link To Document :
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