Impact of Unreliable Power on a Paper Mill: A Case Study of Paper Industry of Punjab, India.

The availability of reliable power supply at reasonable cost is important for economic growth and development of a country. Low system reliability leads to increased outages resulting more losses to business sectors. To evaluate such losses customer survey approach was adopted as the customer is in the best judge of losses affected by the outages. The study was conducted to establish monetary losses associated with aftereffects of outages. The Customer Damage Function (CDF) approach was used in this study. The CDF value comes out to be Rs. 16.65 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]