Dissertation in the field of Power Systems, Sinan Küfeoğlu
The title of thesis is Economic Impacts of Electric Power Outages and Evaluation of Customer Interruption Costs
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Studying customer interruption costs (CIC) and proposing credible and practical estimation methods is a challenging task. The necessity of this research arose from the lack of widely accepted and easy to adopt approaches in the field. Each customer segment has its own distinct electric power consumption and depend-ence characteristics. This fact indicates the necessity of analyzing each customer group separately and proposing unique CIC estimation techniques. Having a developed power system and easiness to reach useful data for analysis, Finland is a proper country to study the economic impacts of the electric power interrup-tions. The ultimate goal of this research is to provide CIC estimations which will be:
Customer specific
Utilizing publicly declared and objective data
Demanding less time, less money and less effort
Easy to duplicate in any part of the world
Providing credible and sound results
To achieve these goals the customers are divided into three main segments; in-dustry customers, service customers and residential customers. Different and unique CIC estimation methodology has been proposed for each customer seg-ment.
Opponents: Prof. Josu Takala, University of Vaasa, Finland
Assoc. Prof. George Cristian Lazaroiu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Supervisor: Professor Matti Lehtonen, Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation
Contact information:
Sinan Küfeoğlu
tel. +358 40 6707 212
sinan.kufeoglu@aalto.fi