Chao, Xiuli; Chen, Frank Y. - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 7 (2005) 2, pp. 130-143
. During peak periods, the energy supplier offers the manufacturing firm---the energy user---an incentive program to reduce its … energy usage by shutting down its production facility. Participation in the incentive program, however, is totally voluntary … incentive program. In this paper, we provide simple models to give insight into the nature of these problems. Two cases are …