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Management Science Vol. 29 No. 8 1983

Supply, Storage, and Service Reliability Decisions by Gas Distribution Utilities: A Chance-Constrained Approach: Comments on Guldmann's Paper

Jill J. Rasmussen

Gas Research Institute, Washington, D.C.

Abstract

A question has been raised as to the value of Guldmann's paper because the model application indicates very small increments of benefits over costs for the “optimal” decision across a wide range of “nonoptimal” ones. That is, no matter what decision is made about storage capacity or reliability level, savings are on the order of 1 percent of costs. In addition, similar increments of benefit occur irrespective of conversion capacity or reliability level.

DOI
10.1287/mnsc.29.8.907
Volume
29
Issue
8
Pages
907-908
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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