Shopping for outage management systems
Abstract
Customer service is becoming increasingly important to electric utilities. Outage management is an important part of customer service. Good outage management means quickly responding to outages and keeping customers informed about outages. Each outage equals lost customer satisfaction and lost revenue. Outage management is increasingly important because of new competition among utilities for customers, pressure from regulators, and internal pressure to cut costs. The market has several existing software products for outage management. How does a utility judge whether these products satisfy their specific needs? Technology is changing rapidly to support outage management. Which technology is proven and cost-effective? The purpose of this paper is to outline the procedure for evaluating outage management systems, and to discuss the key features to look for. It also gives our opinion of the features that represent state of the art. This paper will not discuss specific products or list vendors names.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 192240
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9501113-
TRN: 96:001030-0056
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1995 DA/DSM conference, San Jose, CA (United States), 23-25 Jan 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of DA/DSM 1995 conference proceedings. Volume 1 and 2; PB: 699 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY; 24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; OUTAGES; MANAGEMENT; POWER SYSTEMS; COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LOAD MANAGEMENT
Citation Formats
Chou, Y C, Konneker, L K, and Watkins, T R. Shopping for outage management systems. United States: N. p., 1995.
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Chou, Y C, Konneker, L K, & Watkins, T R. Shopping for outage management systems. United States.
Chou, Y C, Konneker, L K, and Watkins, T R. 1995.
"Shopping for outage management systems". United States.
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abstractNote = {Customer service is becoming increasingly important to electric utilities. Outage management is an important part of customer service. Good outage management means quickly responding to outages and keeping customers informed about outages. Each outage equals lost customer satisfaction and lost revenue. Outage management is increasingly important because of new competition among utilities for customers, pressure from regulators, and internal pressure to cut costs. The market has several existing software products for outage management. How does a utility judge whether these products satisfy their specific needs? Technology is changing rapidly to support outage management. Which technology is proven and cost-effective? The purpose of this paper is to outline the procedure for evaluating outage management systems, and to discuss the key features to look for. It also gives our opinion of the features that represent state of the art. This paper will not discuss specific products or list vendors names.},
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