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Issues in studying ancillary services
Social Science & Medicine, 1982This paper examines several approaches to studying ancillary services usage. The likely generalizability of results provides one criterion for picking site, study population and conditions studied. Breaking up such an aggregate figure as mean annual ancillary services charges per patient into its component parts helps identify the different ...
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Ancillary services: an overview
IEE Colloquium on Pricing of Ancillary Services: An International Perspective, 1996The purpose of this overview is to offer an introduction of the so-called ancillary services which have been heard much about in recent times. There are people, including some well-known veterans in the electricity supply industry, who, upon hearing the term “ancillary services” for the first time, think that it is a new technology, or a new management
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Pricing Ancillary Service Subscriptions
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015We investigate heterogeneous customer choice behavior in the presence of main products—ancillary services with options of pay-per-use and subscription—and outside option. The willingness to pay for a service subscription is derived as a closed-form expression, which enables us to characterize the optimal pricing strategy and the impact of service ...
Ruxian Wang, Maqbool Dada, Ozge Sahin
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IEE Seminar on Electricity Trading, 2000
This paper describes the current arrangements for the procurement of ancillary services and how these services may be procured under NETA. The paper is separated into five sections. The first section outlines the categories of ancillary services that currently exist, the current procurement procedures.
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This paper describes the current arrangements for the procurement of ancillary services and how these services may be procured under NETA. The paper is separated into five sections. The first section outlines the categories of ancillary services that currently exist, the current procurement procedures.
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Reactive power as an ancillary service
pica 2001. Innovative Computing for Power - Electric Energy Meets the Market. 22nd IEEE Power Engineering Society. International Conference on Power Industry Computer Applications (Cat. No.01CH37195), 2001This paper addresses the problem of reactive power procurement by an independent system operator (ISO) in deregulated electricity markets. A reactive bid structure is proposed in the context of a reactive power market. Based on the reactive power price offers and technical constraints involved in reactive power planning, a two-tier approach is ...
Bhattacharya, K, Zhong, J
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Auctions for ancillary services
Decision Support Systems, 1999Abstract This paper discusses the procurement of ancillary services in a competitive electricity market. The paper assumes the existence of an underlying market for energy and explains why this energy market must be accompanied by a market for ancillary services.
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Service Orientation and Ancillary Service Perceptions
2014A fairly recent retail phenomena is a widening of discretionary services offered as part of some major chain’s product assortment. However, a failure to offer services consistent with characteristics of target markets is likely to lead to a widening of a service quality gap.
William R. Darden, Barry J. Babin
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Power System Ancillary Services
2011Ancillary services are essential for the reliably high-quality operation of a power system. These services are provided by network users and procured by the independent system operator – ISO. Due to system requirements and market structures, ancillary services are managed in different ways around the world.
Juan Carlos Galvis +1 more
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Ancillary service impact on outpatient scheduling
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2013Purpose – The paper aims to provide a simulation optimization solution to improve patient scheduling that accounts for varying ancillary service time such as x-ray to minimize patient wait time. Design/methodology/approach – The two-step approach is to: identify ...
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