Willingness to pay for microgrids to enhance community resilience
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چکیده
Given the important role that electricity plays in powering society, and significant risk extreme weather other events pose disrupting supply, idea of community-scale microgrids has come to forefront enhance electrical grid resiliency provide critical services local communities during extended outages. In this paper, a discrete choice experiment is used evaluate willingness pay (WTP) for provided by community microgrid power With sample 939 respondents from New York State, results indicate that, overall, there positive services, including hospital emergency potable water, shelters, retail outlets; even if residents are not receiving their own residential supply an outage. The average full suite evaluated approximately $14 per month household. We also find WTP varies with some sociodemographic characteristics. These evidence rate-makers utilities evaluating societal benefit when making investment decisions related infrastructure.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Energy Policy
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1873-6777', '0301-4215']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112248