What does “better” mean? Perceptions of electricity and water services in Santo Domingo

Jiménez, Raúl; Serebrisky, Tomás; Mercado, Jorge

doi:10.1016/j.jup.2016.01.005

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“…First, the article utilized a CE technique to look into the economic value of the attributes of improving NG supply reliability and found that the application was successful because the estimation results were statistically meaningful and the respondents actively participated in the CE survey. Improved power supply reliability is not just a problem for South Korea but an important issue for the worldwide, especially for developing countries [23][24][25][26][27]. Thus, comparison of the results from our work with those from future works that will be applied in other countries will yield new implications.…”

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Economic Value of Improving Natural Gas Supply Reliability for Residential Consumers in South Korea

Kim

Yoo

2019

Sustainability

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An interruption to residential natural gas (NG) may cause considerable economic damage of the entire country. Thus, the South Korean government requires information about the economic value of improving residential NG supply reliability for planning NG supply. This article aims to measure the value using a specific case of South Korean residential consumers. The choice experiment (CE) approach was adopted for this purpose. The selected four attributes are the duration of interruption, the season of interruption, the time of day, and the day of the week. The value trade-off works among the four attributes and price attribute were sought and completed in a nationwide CE survey of 1000 households. The respondents revealed statistically significant willingness to pay for a decrease in the duration of interruption, avoiding interruption during winter rather than non-winter, and preventing interruption during off-daytime (18:00 to 09:00) rather than daytime (09:00 to 18:00). For example, they accepted a 0.10% increase in the residential NG bill for a one-minute reduction in interruption during NG supply interruption, a 5.16% increase in residential NG bill for avoiding interruption during winter rather than non-winter, and a 2.94% increase in residential NG bill for preventing interruption during off-daytime rather than daytime. However, they placed no importance on the day of the week. These results can be useful for policy-making and decision-making to improve residential NG supply reliability. It is necessary to conduct a study at regular intervals on the value of NG supply reliability because regarding NG supply reliability, it is difficult to maintain a specific value.

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Economic Value of Improving Natural Gas Supply Reliability for Residential Consumers in South Korea

Kim

Yoo

2019

Sustainability

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“…Direct information from the users is often preferable because expert opinion and secondary sources have drawbacks [26]. Namely, expert opinion may be subject to biased personal perception because they do not experience the real situation.…”

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“…Honest answers can be expected from the respondents if they believe their response could affect outcomes and if questions are associated with public goods [26], which is relevant to this study. However, users might still overstate their perception towards the questions compared to their real behavior or situation [26].…”

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Perceived and Reported Reliability of the Electricity Supply at Three Urban Locations in Indonesia

Kunaifi

Reinders

2018

Energies

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This paper focuses on the reliability of electricity supply at three different locations in Indonesia, namely in Sumatra, Timor, and Papua, through a comparison of reported indices of power reliability (SAIFI and SAIDI) and experimental results from user surveys and power measurements. The reason for this study is the lack of information about the actual, quantified reliability of power supplied by the main grid in Indonesia, while narratives of end-users indicate the reliability might be unsatisfactory. The study was executed using data from 114 randomly-selected respondents in the city of Pekanbaru in Sumatra, 65 in the city of Kupang in Timor and 26 in the city of Jayapura in Papua, totaling 205 respondents. These users experienced a higher unavailability of power delivered by the grid than expressed by the utility-reported SAIDI and SAIFI. Therefore, for this study, new indices are introduced, namely the Perceived (P) SAIDI and SAIFI, which are based on the frequency and duration of blackouts experienced by the users. It is concluded that the reported reliability indices do not always demonstrate the experience of the grid users. P-SAIFIs were 1.3 to 4.6 times higher in Pekanbaru and Kupang, respectively than the utility-reported SAIFIs for the same provinces. Also, P-SAIDIs were 2.6 to 3.9 times higher in Pekanbaru and Kupang, respectively, than the utilities' SAIDIs. It is therefore not surprising that depending on the location, 14% to 65% of the users own a backup generator and that households are willing to pay $3 to $8 extra per monthly electricity bill or $1c-$3c per kWh for improved reliability.

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“…Details of this work are presented in Jimenez et al (2016). I identified the following seven attributes: number of interruptions per month, monthly cost of service, lengths of outages, voltage stability, billing punctuality, timing of outages, and response to claims.…”

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Are Blackout Days Free of Charge?: Valuation of Individual Preferences for Improved Electricity Services

Mori¹,

Alberto²

2017

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What does “better” mean? Perceptions of electricity and water services in Santo Domingo

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Economic Value of Improving Natural Gas Supply Reliability for Residential Consumers in South Korea

Economic Value of Improving Natural Gas Supply Reliability for Residential Consumers in South Korea

Perceived and Reported Reliability of the Electricity Supply at Three Urban Locations in Indonesia

Are Blackout Days Free of Charge?: Valuation of Individual Preferences for Improved Electricity Services

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