This article addresses the supply and pricing of backup power to be provided by local distribution companies to industrial self-generators. Optimal self-generation investment and backup power contracting strategies for self-generators are characterized. The paper characterizes welfare-optimal pricing and second-best pricing for a local distribution company (Disco). The paper shows that optimal ...

Since last few decades, electric supply industry is undergoing restructuring all over the world. Restructuring has brought organizational and operational changes by by the virtue of which Electricity has now become a commodity and regulated cost based electric power system is converted into price based liberalized power market. Under this competitive power market environment, number of market p...

Computerized control systems have been used in many years to supervise and control power distribution. These systems, which often are referred to as SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems, have in recent been more and more interconnected to other systems in recent years. In modern utilities various kinds of data are exchanged between the distribution management systems and the...