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2024

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).

2023

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

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). DOI

2021

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).

2020

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).

2018

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

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. DOI

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

2017

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).

2016

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. DOI

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

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

2015

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

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

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

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

2010

Sullivan, Michael J, Matthew G Mercurio, Josh A Schellenberg, and Joseph H Eto."How to Estimate the Value of Service Reliability Improvements."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2010) 5. DOI

2009

Sullivan, Michael J, Matthew G Mercurio, and Josh A Schellenberg."Estimated Value of Service Reliability for Electric Utility Customers in the United States." (2009) 130.

2006

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto."Cost of Power Interruptions to Electricity Consumers in the United States (U.S.)." (2006) 33.

2004

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto."Understanding the Cost of Power Interruptions to U.S. Electricity Consumers." (2004) 70.

2003

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." (2003) 86.

Lawton, Leora, Joseph H Eto, Aaron Katz, and Michael J Sullivan."Characteristics and Trends in a National Study of Consumer Outage Costs."Center for Research in Regulated Industries (CRRI) Annual Western Conference (2003) 16.

2002

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

2001

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) 148.