Developing Cost-Effective Inspection Sampling Plans for Energy-Efficiency Programs at Southern California Edison

Kut C. So () and Edward Wu ()
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Kut C. So: The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697
Edward Wu: Customer Programs and Services, Southern California Edison, Rosemead, California 91770

Interfaces, 2016, vol. 46, issue 6, 522-532

Abstract: This paper summarizes the results of the development and implementation of a decision model for a major California utility company. The company’s program managers use the model to select the most cost-effective sampling inspection plan for managing a portfolio of energy-efficiency programs. The decision model can be used to evaluate the performance of possible sampling strategies based on historical data. We illustrate the application of our decision model to a specific program. We further highlight several key implementation success factors and discuss the benefits that the utility company accrued from using the decision model.

Keywords: energy; inspection; statistics; sampling; decision support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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