Comparison of Reliability Measures

• So what’s the point?

• Reserve margin is blind to the supply system’s outage probabilities (FOR’s).

• Although LOLP is able to capture the impact of the supply system’s random forced outages, it’s blind to their severity (the amount of capacity forced out).

• EUE is able to capture the impact of random generating unit forced outages and their severity.

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