Power rationing in a long-term power shortage

Alastair Heggie, Dan Eager, Ken McKinnon and Adriaan van der Weijde

Energy Policy, 2018, vol. 121, issue C, 202-210

Abstract: In many developing countries power demand is much greater than can be met, leading to routine load shedding. Some policy must be chosen for the fair and efficient rationing of power, however, transmission constraints and unreliabile generation can make it difficult to achieve a particular allocation of power.

Keywords: Optimal power flow; Power rationing; Load shedding; Developing countries; Nigeria; Lagrangian decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2018.06.025

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