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What a Service Outage Costs -
Lets Count the Costs
Consider that it is estimated from many that outages cost customers 150 Billion annually! that is about a $1000 for every last power pole in america - EVERY YEAR!
And this loss cuts both ways - For producers/distributors, every Watt-Hour not sold is profit not gained. Every hour of crews doing line walks searching for the trouble(s) is Cost spent and Income lost.
Electricity Markets & Policy
Many industry professionals and resources documenting the cost of Infrastructure failures
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Reports on Who's Impacted
E-Source reported that, "Only 30 percent of customers gave their utilities high marks for using advanced technologies to quickly pinpoint outages, making appropriate investments in the power grid, and communicating with customers during outages."
A Day Without Power: Outage Costs for Business BloomEnergy.com
Example of Existing Best In class management tools
Economic Benefits of Increasing Electric Grid Resiliency to Weather Outages -
This report was prepared by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, with assistance from the White House Office of Science and Technology