期刊名称：International Journal of Economic Development Research and Investment
印刷版ISSN：2141-6729
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
期号：2
出版社：International Centre for Integrated Development Research
摘要：This studyaimed at providing the approach to be followed by researchers when estimating cost of unserved utility service mostly electricity. It examined the different cost components that can be used to identify total direct cost using a typical direct assessment method. It was revealed that there are variations to direct cost assessment which involved production loss approach and systems outage customer cost approach. Direct Assessment method provides the richest source of information for tracking trends in interruption cost and had a number of weaknesses such as ignoring indirect cost, self assessment problem and non- consideration for makeup cost. The method can also be used in assessing direct cost for interruption in services such as water supply and telephone services.
关键词：Electricity outage; direct assessment; production loss; cost of electricity ; interruption
