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Residential customer outage cost valuation for urban areas in Nepal

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Title Residential customer outage cost valuation for urban areas in Nepal
 
Creator KARKI, NR
VERMA, AK
MISHRA, AK
KARKI, R
SHRESTHA, J
 
Subject residential customer surveys
electricity supply outage cost
wtp
wta
preparatory actions
 
Description 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 socioeconomic 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.
 
Publisher IEEE
 
Date 2011-10-26T00:02:24Z
2011-12-15T09:12:14Z
2011-10-26T00:02:24Z
2011-12-15T09:12:14Z
2008
 
Type Proceedings Paper
 
Identifier 2008 40TH NORTH AMERICAN POWER SYMPOSIUM (NAPS 2008),623-630
978-1-4244-4283-6
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/15852
http://hdl.handle.net/100/2541
 
Source 40th North American Power Symposium,Calgary, CANADA,SEP 28-30, 2008
 
Language English