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http://dx.doi.org/10.5370/JEET.2014.9.3.796

Ex-ante Evaluation of Economic Costs from Power Grid Blackout in South Korea  

Kim, Chang-Seob (Department of Energy IT, Gachon University)
Jo, Manseok (Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program, Seoul National University)
Koo, Yoonmo (H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology)
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Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology / v.9, no.3, 2014 , pp. 796-802 More about this Journal
Abstract
South Korea is recently under serious situation in supplying electricity with enough power reserve. A single fault of power plant at a peak-load time may lead to a total blackout for whole area connected by a single electric grid and isolated from other grids. Despite of the seriousness of blackout, however, there are scarce studies with ex-ante analysis of the economic costs from blackout. In order to evocate the seriousness, we calculate the economic costs for both industrial and household sectors with using some survey data and statistical methodologies. As a result, total economic costs are 39.23 trillion KRW (35.83 trillion KRW for industrial sector, 3.40 trillion KRW for household sector).
Keywords
Electricity; Blackout; Outage; Interruption cost; Contingent valuation method;
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