TY - JOUR ID - 880 TI - Design of Reliability Insurance Scheme Based on Utility Function for Improvement of Distribution Grid Reliability JO - Journal of Operation and Automation in Power Engineering JA - JOAPE LA - en SN - 2322-4576 AU - Niromandfam, A. AU - Sadeghi Yazdankhah, A. AU - Kazemzadeh, R. AD - Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 8 IS - 3 SP - 257 EP - 272 KW - Reliability regulation KW - utility function KW - insurance KW - customers’ viewpoints DO - 10.22098/joape.2020.6279.1473 N2 - The regulatory schemes currently used for reliability improvement have weaknesses in the provision of quality services based on the customers’ perspective. These schemes consider the average of the service as a criterion to incentivize or penalize the distribution system operators (DSOs). On the other hand, most DSOs do not differentiate electricity services at the customer level, due to the status of the electricity grid and lack of adequate information about customers’ preferences. This paper proposes a novel reliability insurance scheme (RIS), which enables the electricity consumers to determine their desired reliability levels according to their preferences and pay corresponding premiums to the DSO. The DSO can use the premiums to improve reliability or reimburse consumers. To design efficient insurance contracts, this paper uses utility function to estimate customers’ viewpoints of electricity energy consumption. This function measures the customers’ satisfaction of electricity energy consumption. The proposed utility based reliability insurance scheme (URIS) may create a free-riding opportunity for the DSO, in which low quality service is provided and the collected premiums are used to pay the reimbursements. To prevent free-riding opportunity, this paper incorporates the proposed URIS and reward/penalty schemes (RPSs). The results show that the success of the proposed reliability scheme increases as the grid flexibility increases. UR - https://joape.uma.ac.ir/article_880.html L1 - https://joape.uma.ac.ir/article_880_7c14abe327ee3593a030429355f997c6.pdf ER -