Understand the Costs of an Energy or Water Outage with the Customer Damage Function Calculator

Research output: NRELFact Sheet

Abstract

The Customer Damage Function (CDF) Calculator is a free, publicly available web tool that helps users estimate the costs incurred at their site due to an electric grid or water service outage. Developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with support from the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), the tool is designed to help federal facility owners, building energy managers, and resilience planners understand and quantify the value of resilience to justify investments that would prevent or lessen the impact of a disruption.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages2
StatePublished - 2023

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/FS-6A20-86246

Other Report Number

  • DOE/GO-102023-5909

Keywords

  • CDF Calculator
  • Customer Damage Function Calculator
  • energy security
  • facility outage vulnerabilities
  • resilience investments
  • value of lost load
  • value of resilience

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