The deregulation of the Electricity Sector in US has led to a tremendous increase in the inter-regional wholesale electricity trade between neighboring utilities or regions. For instance, the generation deficit regions may choose to import power from surplus regions; thus the wholesale...

The thesis aims to introduce an efficient resource development strategy in electric utility long term planning under uncertainty considerations. In recent years, electric utilities have recognized the concepts of robustness, flexibility, and risk exposure, to be considered in their resource...

This study presents a multi-attribute decision making (MADM) frameworkin support of strategic resource planning of electric utilities. Study efforts have focusedon four technical issues identified to be essentially important to the process of strategicresource development, i.e., decision data...

<CENTER><H4>An Analysis of the Financial Incentives Impact on the Utility Demand-Side Management Programs</h3></center><p align="justify"> Many utilities implement the financial incentive plans in promoting their Demand-Side Management (DSM) programs. The plans are intended to reduce the customer investment cost for a high efficiency...</p></h4>

The objective of this thesis is to estimate, for adistribution network, confidence intervals containing thevalues of nodal hourly power consumption and nodal maximumpower consumption per customer where they are not measured.The values of nodal hourly power consumption are needed inoperational as...