1 Introduction
2 Methodology
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Direct costs
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Indirect costs
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Long-term costs of macroeconomic relevance
3 Estimation results and application of blackout-simulator.com
3.1 Userfriendly specification of outage characteristics
Outage characteristics | Case study power outage in Italy on September 28th, 2003 |
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Specified by user, checked by the system | |
Date of start of outage | 28 September 2003 |
Start time of outage | 03:00 am |
Duration in hours | 3–16 depending on the region |
Provinces affected | Italy (except Sardinia) |
Public holiday | Yes (Sunday) |
Economic sector/affected region of Italy | Agriculture | Manufacturing | Services | Households | Total losses |
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North | 5.3 | 136.7 | 60.8 | 43.1 | 245.8 |
Center | 20.6 | 217.6 | 154.6 | 98.2 | 491.0 |
South | 20.9 | 82.8 | 97.6 | 94.3 | 295.5 |
Sicily | 12.4 | 33.7 | 54.6 | 49.5 | 150.1 |
Total | 59.2 | 470.8 | 367.5 | 285 | 1182.4 |
% of GDP | 0.083 % |